It’s been decades since Mara’s family was last together, decades since the day her sister Allison drowned at Silver Beach. After the family tragedy, Mara’s father took her to the opposite end of the country, where she made a tidy life for herself in wes

CLAIRE COX holds an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College and was a finalist for the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Originally from San Diego, she lives with her husband and son in New York City, where she has taught high school English since 2005.

“Silver Beach speaks with candor and compassion to the sometimes overwhelming weight of the family romance, revealing the courage, doubt, tenderness, cruelty, frailty, and resilience of human nature. The people in Silver Beach are real, their stories artfully, painfully true.”—Sam Michel, author of Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five