The Seas: A Novel (English Edition) -

Samantha Hunt

Picador

2005

193 páginas

6h 26m

ISBN-13: 9780312425234

The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced that she is a mermaid. What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison. What she does to get out is the stuff of legend. In the words of writer Michelle Tea, The Seas is "creepy and poetic, subversive and strangely funny, [and] a phenomenal piece of literature.

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“A rogue wave would stick out like this; Imagine you are reading a book and have arrived at a certain page, but imagine that when you arrived at that page instead of being five inches wide it is one hundred and ninety-eight feet wide. So wide that when you turn the page it crushes you, pins you underneath it.
You would never make it to page 38”