Description "Inside this mesmerizing tale of sexual desire and discovery, naive newlyweds Henry and Effie are honeymooning in Cape May, N.
J., in 1957, tentatively navigating intimacy.
He lives in El Segundo, California, with his wife and baby daughter..
Cape May is his debut novel.
Botolph Club Foundation.
He has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers\' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writers\' Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as an Emerging Artist Award from the St.
About the Author Chip Cheek \'s stories have appeared in The Southern Review , Harvard Review , Washington Square , and other journals and anthologies.
Erotic and moving, this is a novel about marriage, love and sexuality, and the lifelong repercussions that meeting a group of debauched cosmopolitans has on a new marriage.
The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences.
Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away
Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara\'s lover; and Alma, Max\'s aloof and mysterious half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn.
But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama.
Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short.
Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted.
Late September 1957.
Cape May does something better than critique or satirize: It seduces." - The Wall Street Journal A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites.
A dozy, luxurious sense of enchantment comes over the story, until the rude awakening at its finale....
Cheek\'s sensual first novel leaves you wanting more." - PEOPLE "Henry and Effie\'s honeymoon is meant to be their introduction to the pleasures of the body, but in the company of Clara and her promiscuous cohort they lose all track of boundaries.
Then they meet Clara and Max, hard-partying lovers who dazzle the innocent pair until they\'ve lost more than their virginity.
Description "Inside this mesmerizing tale of sexual desire and discovery, naive newlyweds Henry and Effie are honeymooning in Cape May, N.
J., in 1957, tentatively navigating intimacy
