The Genie at Low Tide (Ploughshares Solos Book 21)

Josh Cooper won Rookie of the Year in 1972 and was out of the majors by 1973, his pitching career ended by a sharp line drive up the middle. After moving back to his hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina, he has been pleasantly wasting his life for over three decades when a young woman shows up, claiming to be his daughter from one of many one-night stands.

Now, after years of chasing women, casual drinking, and recreational fishing, Cooper is forced to share his life with a strange young woman who keeps badgering him to eat healthier and clean up after himself, and seems to be harboring secrets of her own. €œThe Genie at Low Tide€ is a story of the mysterious, magical encounters that force us to re-examine our lives, even when we seem to have come to the end of the line.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Paul Byall grew up in Ohio and received degrees from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the University of California. He lived in Barcelona, Spain, for six years and in New York City for ten years before moving to Savannah, Georgia, where he now writes full time. He is the award-winning author of numerous essays and short stories. His first published story, written while a student at the University of California, received mention as a €œdistinguished story€ in The Best American Short Stories anthology. He is the recipient of the 2011 Porter Fleming Short Story Award, the 2010 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, and the 2009 New South Fiction Award. His historical novel, Occitania, based on the Cathar Crusades of the 13th century, was a finalist for the James Jones Literary Fellowship and a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom First Novel award. He has recently completed a new novel, Ridgeland, which is looking for a home.