The Tide King

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Jen Michalski

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Black Lawrence Press
08 August 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Adventure; Fantasy; Historical fiction

Stanley Polensky and Calvin Johnson serve in Germany during World War II. Calvin, near death after being shelled, is given a bewitched herb by Stanley but then left for dead. Each soldier returns from the war and years pass. Calvin, discovering that he cannot age and cannot die, searches for Stanley to get answers.

The Tide Kingis the story of burnette saxifrage, an herb rumored in Polish folklore to provide those who eat it with immortality, and its effects on three generations of a Polish family over two continents beginning in 19th-century Poland and ending in 1976 America.

But it is also the story of young men's sacrifice during great wars, of a young child's experiences during the holocaust and being a war orphan, of the curiosities of the American century, such as 1950s country music and smoke jumpers in the Montana mountains and 1970s New York. Just as Viking king Cnut, who was rumored to be so powerful that he controlled the tides at his feet, discovered ""how empty and worthless is the power of kings,"" Calvin Johnson and others cursed by the herb find inThe Tide Kingthat the power of youth and immortality is an empty gift, for they will continually witness the death of their families, lovers, dreams, and ideals.

By: Jen Michalski
Imprint: Black Lawrence Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781937854379
ISBN 10: 193785437X
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 08 August 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jen Michalski is the author of three novels, three short story collections, and a couplet of novellas. Her last novel, You'll Be Fine, was a 2021 Buzzfeed ""Best Small Press Book,"" a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, and was selected as one of the ""Best Books We Read This Year"" by the Independent Press Review. Her latest collection of short stories, The Company of Strangers, is available from Braddock Avenue Books. She's the editor of the weekly online literary weekly jmww and currently lives in Southern California, although she will always be a Baltimore girl by heart.

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