Book
Sea wife / Amity Gaige.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525656494
- ISBN: 0525656499
- Physical Description: 267 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Maps on endpapers. |
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| Subject: | Ocean travel > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Sailing > Fiction. Marriage > Fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Etna Library | FIC GAI | 31257000281252 | Adult collection | Available | - |
Summary:
"Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids--Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four-foot sailboat awaits them--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. The initial result is transformative: their marriage is given a gust of energy, and even the children are affected by the beauty and wonderful vertigo of travel. The sea challenges them all--and most of all, Juliet, who suffers from postpartum depression. Sea Wife is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliet's first-person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the dire, life-changing events that unfolded at sea; and Michael's captain's log--that provides a riveting, slow-motion account of those same inexorable events. Exuberant, harrowing, witty, and exquisitely written, Sea Wife is impossible to put down. A wholly original take on one of our oldest stories--survival at sea -- it also asks a pertinent question for our polarized political moment: How does a crew with deep philosophical differences and outmoded gender roles bring a ship safely to shore?"--