![]() There was little to do,” and so they decide to cut their honeymoon short and return home.īut this is only the beginning of Effie and Henry’s journey in Chip Cheek’s exquisitely-paced, erotically-charged debut novel, Cape May. Instead of offering a romantic escape from their provincial upbringing in Georgia of the late 1950s, Cape May leaves the couple feeling lonely, depressed, and uncertain - they do not seem to possess the language to express what they want, or how they want it, sexually or otherwise: “The days were long. Both are virgins and, as we soon learn, practically strangers to themselves as well as to each other, stumbling over their bodies to have sex for the first time. It is September: the off-season, and the young newlyweds from Georgia find the beach town all but deserted. ![]() When Henry and Effie first arrive at Cape May, New Jersey, they are almost immediately disappointed. ![]()
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