Conroy Pat. The Prince of Tides

A fractured Southern family that “fate tested a thousand times” comes robustly to life in Pat Conroy’s novel The Prince of Tides. Published in 1986, this powerful and immensely satisfying family saga resonates with the author’s own life and experience. The novel follows the painful but liberating emotional journey of Tom Wingo,
who travels to New York from his native South Carolina to care for his sister Savannah, a successful feminist poet but a fragile woman who has attempted suicide once again. He accepts her psychiatrist’s suggestion that they work together to explore Savannah’s anguished past. Only then can Tom confront the awful truth about his family and the dark secrets that have poisoned them, at last finding a measure of redemption.