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Sea Wife
Amity Gaige
For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson, and Jennifer Egan
From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder,
a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who
escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their
lives
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?
From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder,
a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who
escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their
lives
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?
Categories:
Year:
2020
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language:
english
Pages:
288
ISBN 10:
2019012979
ISBN 13:
9782019012977
File:
EPUB, 6.18 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2020