The Seas

✍ Scribed by Hunt, Samantha

• Book ID: 110491838
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781941040959

✦ Synopsis

"The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." --Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction)

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Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.

True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior.The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend.

With the inventive...