The Seas
The Seas by Samantha Hunt, published by National Geographic Books on July 16, 2019, is a reprint edition comprising 240 pages. This novel features an unnamed narrator who resides in a remote coastal fishing town, where she grapples with her identity as a misfit and the lingering absence of her father, a sailor who vanished into the ocean eleven years prior. As she navigates the complexities of her life, she clings to the belief that she is a mermaid, a notion instilled in her by her father.
Readers will encounter a vivid coming-of-age story that intertwines themes of love and loss, as the narrator becomes involved with an Iraq War veteran significantly older than herself. The narrative explores her tumultuous emotions and the consequences of her choices, leading to a transformative journey that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy. With its rich psychological depth, The Seas invites readers to delve into a world where the sea serves as both a literal and metaphorical backdrop for the narrator’s struggles and aspirations.
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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 brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls readers into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.
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