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The Seas

by Samantha Hunt
Maggie Nelson
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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 listeners 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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  • Release date

    February 19, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781977318299
      • File size: 140826 KB
      • Duration: 04:53:23

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Samantha Hunt narrates her own novel featuring a nameless narrator who descends into madness. The story is told from the perspective of a 19-year-old woman who lives in a fishing town rife with alcoholism and biting cold, known only as "up north." Hunt pours herself into the narration. The protagonist pours her heart out as she tells listeners all her wants and desires. She loves a man she cannot have, and as she explains this, her heart breaks even more--to the point that she can barely utter anything. She is so convinced that she is a mermaid that the listener begins to believe it as well. This haunting audiobook begs listeners to listen again for the clues about what is real and what is fantasy. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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