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PUBLISHED
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, [2018]
EDITION
Tin House edition
DESCRIPTION
217 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781941040959, 1941040950 :, 1941040950, 9781941040959
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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