May 26, 2020

Cynthia Newberry Martin’s Young Characters Struggle With Marriage in Her Literary Fiction Novel, “Tidal Flats”

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In this LIVE 108th podcast episode recorded at Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina, we visit with Cynthia Newberry Martin, author of “Tidal Flats,” a novel where marriage is at the heart of the story and where conflicting choices could undermine the union. It’s the winner of the 2020 Gold Medal in Literary Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards .

Rebecca Makkai, author of “The Great Believers,” says that Cynthia Newberry Martin is a tremendous writer, with a Woolfian talent for taking the full measure of small moments,” and Joshua Mohr, author of “Sirens and Damascus,” aptly notes that “the novel swirls with light and love.”

In Chapter 1, Cass and Ethan are nearing the end of their first three years of marriage, where the three-year pact they made to start their marriage, The Tidal Flats Agreement, is ever present and about to complicate their lives.

To start the show, Cynthia reads from the preface, when we learn about the agreement, and what lies ahead for the young couple.

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About the Author

Cynthia Newberry Martin writes about marriage. About how characters navigate between separateness and togetherness. About how they balance the need for both time to themselves and time together. About what compromise does to a person’s sense of self.

Tidal Flats is her first published novel, but she has written two other novels that received awards, which she says appear in drawers, not stores. Her early stories, essays, and reviews appeared in Hunger Mountain, Brevity, Gargoyle, Contrary Magazine, Clapboard House, Storyglossia, and Numéro Cinq.

Cynthia holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has served as the Review Editor for Contrary Magazineand the Writing Life Editor for Hunger Mountain. Her website features the How We Spend Our Days series, over a decade of essays by writers on their lives. She grew up in Atlanta and now lives in Columbus, Georgia, with her husband, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a little house by the water, her favorite place on earth.

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