Soundings

Somehow this summer didn’t fully deliver on its promise to slow us down.

We had the great fortune of adding Hannah Tackett to the Tide Cycle team in June. The excitement and momentum for what we’re building for our clients met her capacity to help us deliver on it, and we couldn’t help but want to put the hours in. We look forward to connecting with many of you this fall to share what we’ve been up to and to hear what you’re doing and thinking about.

That said, collectively, we have found time for biking, golfing, volleyball, the beach, family, friends, and some great reads.

Below, a sampling of the best books we read this summer:

Kate – (Sigh) The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout. I admire the careful craft of this book that alchemizes the mundane into something sublime. Strout’s high school history teacher protagonist Artie Dam is a meditation on love and possibility. I can’t stop thinking about how relationships are shaped by what we are open to giving and receiving in them. Strout strikes a hopeful balance between the heartbreak of what is not said, and how we sometimes are not known even by those closest to us, and the magic of the smallest moments of connection.

Jeff – After watching the impact and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 through the lens of TV news coverage at a hotel room, I’ve remained fascinated for 20+ years by the stories of survivors, victims, observers and experts. It happened in America. And yet the video could have been from anywhere in the world. I recently stumbled upon “Salvage the Bones”, a 2011 novel by Jesmyn Ward, that told a fictional (but clearly influenced by real world, first-hand accounts) story about a family facing innumerable challenges in rural Mississippi as they cope with daily life, AND prepare for a coming storm. Ultimately, the storm is not the story here. It’s a human-interest story about what it takes to remain a close-knit family in the face of constant trials and tribulations, storm or not. I like stories about family loyalty. I like stories about rural America. This one had it all.

Hannah – I kicked off the summer with The Lion Women of Tehran, a captivating coming-of-age story that weaves activism and hope into the backdrop of Iran from the 1950s-1980s. If you ran into me in August, I probably asked, “Have you read Yesteryear?” It was a timely and thought-provoking read in light of the media’s recent focus on postpartum mental health with the Lindsay Clancy trial.

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