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008			210713s20202020nyu 000 1 eng d
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082	1		_aFIC GAI _2
100	1		_aGaige, Amity
245	1	0	_a Sea wife : _ba novel _c/ Amity Gaige
260			_aNew York _b: Aklfred A. Knopf _c, 2020
300			_a267 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aSea Wife breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the fraught and hidden dangers of domesticity, motherhood, and marriage. A young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives.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. Sea Wife is a transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aOcean travel _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSailing _v--Fiction
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