Sea wife

Gaige, Amity 1972- (author.).

Summary: "Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. 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. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea. Despite the stresses of being novice sailors, the family learns to crew the boat together on the ever-changing sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve - until they are tested by the unforeseen.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 life-changing events that unfolded at sea, and Michael's captain's log, which provides a riveting, slow-motion account of these same inexorable events, a dialogue that reveals the fault lines created by personal history and political divisions."--Publisher description.

Item details

ISBN: 9780525656494
ISBN: 0525656499
Physical Description: print
267 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020
Badges:
- Top Circs: 3 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

General Note:

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

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Subject:

Survival at sea Fiction
Married people Fiction
Ocean travel Fiction
Parenthood Fiction
Families Fiction
Sailing Fiction
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Sea Stories
FICTION / Family Life / General
Families
Married people
Ocean travel
Parenthood
Sailing
Survival at sea

Genre:

Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Sea fiction.
Sea stories.
Sea fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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