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As direct and precise as a child's diary, By the Shore introduces the world of twelve-year-old May, who lives in a less-than-thriving oceanfront bed-and-breakfast run by her single mother. May's life is filled with the frustrations and promise of youth, complicated by a loving if distracted young mother who strives to care for her two children without forfeiting her own fun and passion. May puts her faith in the things that elude her-an absent father, the London city life left behind, the acceptance of the popular girls who have boyfriends, off-the-rack clothes, and matronly mothers who provide more than tea and toast at mealtimes-and wonders if her life will ever change. When a kindly writer and his glamorous editor come to lodge in the weeks before Christmas, opportunities are in the air. But then May's playboy father, estranged from the family for years, drops in and threatens to freeze the delicate new possibilities stirring in all their lives.
British-born and -raised Galaxy Craze writes with delicate confidence of the subtle-ties of childhood understanding and the tender workings of new relationships. By the Shore is a crystalline capturing of a modern romance and that fragile, bittersweet world of youth on the cusp of adulthood.
Galaxy Craze was born in London and moved to the United States with her mother at the age of ten. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and attended the NYU creative writing program on a full scholarship from The New York Times.
Praise for By the Shore:
"Galaxy Craze in her debut novel has created a haunting and bittersweet coming-of-age story that will linger with you long after you have turned the last page. Wonderful."-Fannie Flagg
"By the Shore is a beautifully realized evocation of a child's world, a glimpse into an experience not yet sufficiently explored: the life of a child of a child of the '60s. This book is entirely original, full of rich detail and a slant and quirky wit."-Mary Gordon
"Completely delightful!"-Fay Weldon
"Galaxy Craze has captured that delicate and painful moment in childhood when deciphering the muddled mysteries of adult life seems the key to survival. Her prose shimmers with truth and wisdom, her story with humor and surprise. By the Shore is a moving and tender debut."-Martha McPhee
"By the Shore is a book that creeps up behind and touches you, leaves you with the memory of that touch. It's a book that is both tender and vulnerable and also unflinching in the way it cuts through that tenderness, using a child's objectivity as a knife. Galaxy Craze portrays perfectly how children come to inhabit the dangerous, flamboyant world of adulthood, how they interpret the drama and dance of adult desire, how they learn its steps. The precision of the images are breathtakingly real, and access a poignant, flinty memory for the reader of what it is like to be twelve years old and uncertain, uncertain."-Kirsty Gunn
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