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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Jeff Beamish’s Sneaker Wave centers on Brady Joseph, a Deception Pass teenager whose life has been affected by his father’s death from the bridge above the strait. At seventeen, Brady is drawn into Sarah Roberts’s wealthy circle, even as his closest friends, Sam Sullivan and Luke Newell, keep him tied to the rougher side of town. A party at an abandoned house becomes the event that changes everything when Tom Opal is found badly hurt in the garage. Brady, Sarah, Sam, and Luke agree to describe what happened as an accident, but the lie does not stay in the past. Years later, Brady has a wife, daughters, and a fire hall career, yet the old secret keeps pulling him back toward the same water that has haunted him since childhood.
Jeff Beamish’s Sneaker Wave is brilliant literary fiction and gives Deception Pass the feel of a place of beauty, but crashing down in how quickly that visage can shift to dangerous without warning. He places readers at Baker Lake when Sam drives into black water, then inside Brady’s marriage when Carmel, the nurse who becomes his wife, keeps asking for the truth he keeps dodging. The best part is Brady. I love how Beamish writes him as funny, damaged, and painfully easy to understand even when he is making the worst possible choice. Carmel is fantastic too, especially in the storm outside Mullins Hall, when her love for Brady becomes direct enough to cut through years of silence. Well written and absorbing, readers who enjoy literary fiction about guilt, friendship, and family damage will adore this.
