To the finder of this book:

Welcome to BookCrossing! This book you found is now yours to read, enjoy, keep or pass on to another reader.

The BookCrossing ID, which you entered in the "Enter a BCID" box on the website, is unique to this copy of this book. We would be delighted if you would make a journal entry to say you have found the book.

BookCrossing is FREE to join and a great deal of fun, completely confidential, and you may remain anonymous. If you choose to join please consider using me Ghost_Dog as your referring member.

Enjoy!

I found this book in the Little Free Library while dropping off some books of my own, and nabbed it for a future release challenge. (It inspired a 1991 film that I saw before I first read the book.)

Given that I was iffy about the film, I was surprised at how enjoyable (if sometimes bleak) the book was. Its many lyrical descriptions of country life and the sometimes amusing comparisons with city life were enthralling, as was the growing concern about the fates of the various members of the much-tried Wingo family. [Given the increasingly horrible revelations about the past events that are affecting the characters in the present, it amazed me that any of them were even coherent, much less functioning; the suicidal Savannah sometimes seems to be making more sense than anyone else...]

[There's a TV Tropes page on the film, with references to the novel.]

Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.

I left this book in the Little Free Library on this grey, snowy day; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in NH here.]

*** Released for the 2021 Clean Start for the New Year challenge, for the embedded "Tide" in the title. ***

*** Released for the 2021 Movie challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2021 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***