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Sea wife / Amity Gaige.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525656494
  • ISBN: 0525656499
  • Physical Description: 267 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Subject: Survival at sea > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Ocean travel > Fiction.
Parenthood > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Sailing > Fiction.
Genre: Sea fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Allentown Public Library GAIGE, AMITY (Text) 34455006693382 Adult Fiction Available -
Bethlehem Main Library f (Text) 33062009307563 Adult Fiction Available -
Easton Main Library GAIGE (Text) 31901004433480 Adult Fiction Available -
Easton Palmer Branch GAIGE (Text) 31901004431732 Adult Fiction Available -


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