Last year, Eddy Boudel Tan’s After Elias was a finalist for our Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Now, Tan scores again with a story of a man in search of his father. All Sebastien knows is that his father is a mysterious sailor who abandoned the family thirty years ago. Once Sebastien’s mother dies, he tracks his father to a luxury liner, on which he’s the captain, in the Mediterranean. Posing as a crew member, Sebastien stalks his father, but an odd political shift happens between the crew and the officers due to an assault on a fellow crew member, and Sebastien is caught up in danger he never saw coming.
The Rebellious Tide, by Eddy Boudel Tan. Published by Dundurn Press. The editor is Rachel Spence, and the agent is Jessica Faust. The Rebellious Tide is a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, presented by the Ferro-Grumley Foundation in conjunction with the Publishing Triangle; the winner will be announced on May 11.