Foreword Reviews (4/4 hearts) - 'An exquisitely honed, beautifully written novel. Foreword Reviews (4/4 hearts) - 'An exquisitely honed, beautifully written novel.' Publisher's Weekly (starred review) - 'A striking novel' NPR Books | Jason Heller - 'Rosson is a talent to be watched, and Riptide is one of the most immersive fictional settings in recent memory.' It is a gorgeously written book that merges the sly wonder of magical realism and alternate history with the depth and characterization of literary fiction. Keith Rosson paints outside the typical genre lines with his brilliant debut novel. Meanwhile, Sheriff Dave Dobbs and Deputy Nick Hayslip must try to put their own sorrows aside to figure out who, or what, is wreaking havoc on their once-idyllic town. Set in a tiny, depressed town on the Oregon Coast during the Reagan Administration, things start out dark, and they’re about to get a whole lot darker. Rosson is the award-winning author of the novels The Mercy of the Tide and. The Mercy of the Tide is Keith Rosson’s debut novel, and it’s a strong one. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. John Horner Jacobs, author of A Lush and Seething Hell Keith Rosson is a.

At the heart of the story are Sam Finster, a senior in high school mourning the death of his mother, and his sister Trina, a nine-year-old deaf girl who denies her grief by dreaming of a nuclear apocalypse as Cold War tensions rise. Ask the Author Books by Keith Rosson Keith Rosson Average rating 3.98 1,007 ratings 406 reviews shelved 6,841 times Showing 15 distinct works. The Mercy of the Tide follows four people drawn irrevocably together by a recent tragedy as they do their best to reclaim their lives - leading them all to a discovery that will change them and their town forever. In Smoke City, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own.

But then strange things start happening: a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's beaches.

A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire.

The mercy of the tide by keith rosson