The Tide Waits for No Woman By Richard K. Perkins
The Tide Waits for No Woman is a story of self-discovery and actualization by a young antebellum woman, Abby Parker Anderson, caught in an early October winter storm with a fugitive Black family and her bullmastiff along the upper reaches of the Kennebec River, leaving them snowed in for the winter with an Acadian trapper-farmer-lumberjack and his two Abenaki stepchildren. This reflection of fictional characters interacting with historical people in real political, military, and social contexts will have universal appeal for today’s avid historical fiction readers looking for a female protagonist showing common folks can make a difference when “no one’s hands are clean.”
