I know the date because I made up a title page for it. In my files somewhere I have my first “novel” that I wrote when I was eight years old.
It was a short step from reading to wanting to write books for myself. I was always a sit-around-and-daydream kind of kid. My mother was a voracious reader of romances and horror stories–Stephen King and Dean Koontz and Danielle Steele–and I was always drawn to books in that way. Here the author discusses his family, his habit of getting sidetracked by the love stories, and the thrill of finding his true subject. They’re ready to cut the trip short when a chance encounter with Clara, a beautiful socialite, and Max, her lover, opens the door to an intoxicating world of drama and desire. The empty town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, marvel at the power and beauty of their bodies, experiment with love and sex and drink massive amounts of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives.Set in the fall of 1957, Chip Cheek’s mesmerizing debut novel Cape May is the story of Henry and Effie, two young newlyweds from Georgia who arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the beach town deserted.
In that one moment their destiny is altered forever.Ī glamorous set suddenly disrupt their newly formed married life and sweep them up into their drama: there's 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.
Just as they get ready to cut the trip short and leave Cape May, a light goes on in one of the houses on their street.
It's the end of the summer season, and as they tentatively discover each other - walking on the deserted beach overlooking the vast, darkening Atlantic, clumsily making love in the dusty rooms of a distant relative's house - they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happy-ever-after fantasy. Newlyweds Henry and Effie arrive from Georgia for their honeymoon.
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