Sea Wife
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel. Lauren...
Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel. Lauren...
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearBrilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel. Lauren Groff, author of Florida
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 at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve until they are tested by the unforeseen.
A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.
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Chapter 1Where does a mistake begin? Lately I ve found this simple question difficult. Impossible, actually. A mistake has roots in both time and space a person s reasoning and her whereabouts. Somewhere in the intersection of those two dimensions is the precisely bounded mistake in nautical terms, its coordinates.
Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself? I don t think so. I now suspect that my mistake took root in an innocent experience I forgot to decipher, the mystery of which has quietly ruled me. For example, I remember standing beside a blindingly blue Howard Johnson s motel pool at twelve years old, watching a couple undress one another through a half-drawn curtain, while my estranged father disputed the bill in the lobby. Should I have looked away? Did the miscalculation occur even earlier, as I sat on a rope rug in clean kindergarten sunlight, and I leaned toward the boy beside me and accepted his insistent whisper? I still feel his dew in my ear.
And now I am sitting in a closet.
Michael s closet.
I should explain.
I moved in a couple of days ago. I came in here looking for something of his, and discovered that the carpet is very plush. The slatted bifold doors filter the sunlight beautifully. I feel calm in here.
Hiding in closets is the habit of children, I know. I used to hide in my mother s closet when I was a kid. Her closet contained some dressy silks and wools she never wore. I loved holding these fabrics against my body, or stepping into her high heels, as if onto a dais, rehearsing my future. I never felt ashamed.
Surely there is some connection between seeking refuge in my mother s closet long ago and hiding in Michael s now, but that insight does not help me.
Sometimes life just writes you tiny, awful poems.
I am uncertain whether or not I can survive this day.
I mean, if I want to.
To go out, to go outside, requires
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preparation and composure. If I were to go out, to start walking around and seeing people again and going to the grocery store and getting on with it, invariably what someone would ask me is, Do you wish you d never gone? They will expect me to say, Yes, our journey was a mistake.
Maybe that s what they hope I will say.
But saying yes to the boat was my clearest act of loyalty toward my husband.
I can t afford to regret it.
If I did, I would only be left with my many disloyalties.
January 17. 10:15 a.m. LOG OF YACHT JULIET. From Porvenir. Toward Cayos Limones. 09° 33.5 N 078° 56.98 W. NW wind 10 knots. Seas 2 4 feet. NOTES AND REMARKS: We are 102 nautical miles ENE of Panama City, catching prevailing winds into the sovereign territory of San Blas. The shape of the coast is still visible behind us, but ahead is just water. Nothing but water. That s when I realize there s only one ocean. One big mother ocean. Yes, there are bays & seas & straits. But those are just words. Artificial divisions. Once you re out here, you see there s just one unbroken country of water.
You would never feel this way on land.
(Not in our country.)
What a feeling. Generations of sailors have failed to describe it, so what are my chances? Me, Michael Partlow. Michael Partlow, who can t tell you the title of a single poem. Just ask my wife, her head is full of them.
When I first met him, I thought, I d never marry a guy like that. Too persnickety. Too conventional. No sense of humor! But I was wrong. Marriage and kids and the grind made Michael morbidly funny. He got funnier and funnier, while I, who had been funny, got less funny.
There
Maybe that s what they hope I will say.
But saying yes to the boat was my clearest act of loyalty toward my husband.
I can t afford to regret it.
If I did, I would only be left with my many disloyalties.
January 17. 10:15 a.m. LOG OF YACHT JULIET. From Porvenir. Toward Cayos Limones. 09° 33.5 N 078° 56.98 W. NW wind 10 knots. Seas 2 4 feet. NOTES AND REMARKS: We are 102 nautical miles ENE of Panama City, catching prevailing winds into the sovereign territory of San Blas. The shape of the coast is still visible behind us, but ahead is just water. Nothing but water. That s when I realize there s only one ocean. One big mother ocean. Yes, there are bays & seas & straits. But those are just words. Artificial divisions. Once you re out here, you see there s just one unbroken country of water.
You would never feel this way on land.
(Not in our country.)
What a feeling. Generations of sailors have failed to describe it, so what are my chances? Me, Michael Partlow. Michael Partlow, who can t tell you the title of a single poem. Just ask my wife, her head is full of them.
When I first met him, I thought, I d never marry a guy like that. Too persnickety. Too conventional. No sense of humor! But I was wrong. Marriage and kids and the grind made Michael morbidly funny. He got funnier and funnier, while I, who had been funny, got less funny.
There
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Autoren-Porträt von Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige
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- Autor: Amity Gaige
- 2021, 288 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0525566929
- ISBN-13: 9780525566922
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
An Elle Magazine Best Book of the Year"Stunning. . . . Amity [tows] you to tragedy with the graceful crawl of a poet and the motorboat intensity of a suspense author.
New York Times Book Review
"Profound and universal. . . . Sea Wife achieves a lovely balance between the real and the metaphoric"
The Wall Street Journal
Compelling. . . . The final resolution . . . is achieved in a fashion that even the most sharp-eyed reader won t be able to spot.
The Washington Post
"Gaige's razor-sharp novel is wise to marital and broader politics. But it's also such gripping escapism that it feels like a lifeboat."
People
Gaige is a superb maritime writer. She writes beautifully about water and sky. . . . [Sea Wife] deftly grafts narrative mystery . . . onto a sharp examination of domesticity.
Boston Globe
Cuts to the heart of mundane marital strife and the legacy of trauma.
Elle
[A] splendid, wrenching novel. . . . Every element of this impressive novel clicks into a dazzling, heartbreaking whole.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Gripping. . . . A powerful take on a marriage on the rocks.
Kirkus Reviews
Surprising . . . stunning and deep.
Booklist
With taut prose and well-paced action, Sea Wife provides an excellent escape from reality while exposing universal truths about marriage, motherhood and childhood trauma. . . . Brilliant, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful.
Bookpage
Sea Wife comes along at just the right moment.
Book Reporter
A lot s packed into this smart, pacy and affecting book, which vividly captures the peaks and troughs of both married life and life on the waves. . . . And while Sea Wife plumbs some murky psychological depths, it still pulls off an uplifting conclusion.
The Daily Mail (UK)
I knew I d love the travel and adventurousness of this
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novel. . . . Gaige s expertise about sailing never feels forced or academic. Beyond that, there are wonderful, jewel-like moments of discovery. . . . A dark and thrilling read.
Minnesota Public Radio, The Thread
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige is like the ocean deep, dazzling, terrifying, timeless, volatile, and filled with mystery and wonder. It may not always be smooth sailing but it s a journey that, if processed properly, can lead to resilience and eventual joy.
The What
Gaige sets up this intriguing literary thriller with panache, seducing the reader with shimmering descriptions of coral seas and uninhabited inlets while foreshadowing the calamity at the novel s center.
Metro (UK)
This literary page-turner is . . . not only a gripping story of survival at sea, but also a portrait of a marriage pushed to breaking point.
Good Housekeeping (UK)
Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea but that s just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants.
Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach
Sea Wife brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.
Lauren Groff, author of Florida
Sea Wife is an immersive pleasure. Amity Gaige captivates us, tricks us, and transports us. She understands the inner and the outer world from quiet misery to murderous seas and there is no world she cannot explore and illuminate.
Amy Bloom, author of Lucky Us
Taut as a thriller, emotionally precise yet threaded with lyricism, Sea Wife is at once the compelling story of a family's glorious, misbegotten seafaring adventure and an allegory for life itself. This is an unforgettable novel.
Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl
Few writers have portrayed marriage and parenthood with more fierce intelligence than Amity Gaige, but in Sea Wife, she has outdone herself. This is an unforgettable portrait of a family that ventures out to sea, only to be riven by the weight of the past, and the politics of the present. Piercingly written and compelling from beginning to end, Sea Wife is a major accomplishment.
Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone
Minnesota Public Radio, The Thread
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige is like the ocean deep, dazzling, terrifying, timeless, volatile, and filled with mystery and wonder. It may not always be smooth sailing but it s a journey that, if processed properly, can lead to resilience and eventual joy.
The What
Gaige sets up this intriguing literary thriller with panache, seducing the reader with shimmering descriptions of coral seas and uninhabited inlets while foreshadowing the calamity at the novel s center.
Metro (UK)
This literary page-turner is . . . not only a gripping story of survival at sea, but also a portrait of a marriage pushed to breaking point.
Good Housekeeping (UK)
Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea but that s just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants.
Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach
Sea Wife brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.
Lauren Groff, author of Florida
Sea Wife is an immersive pleasure. Amity Gaige captivates us, tricks us, and transports us. She understands the inner and the outer world from quiet misery to murderous seas and there is no world she cannot explore and illuminate.
Amy Bloom, author of Lucky Us
Taut as a thriller, emotionally precise yet threaded with lyricism, Sea Wife is at once the compelling story of a family's glorious, misbegotten seafaring adventure and an allegory for life itself. This is an unforgettable novel.
Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl
Few writers have portrayed marriage and parenthood with more fierce intelligence than Amity Gaige, but in Sea Wife, she has outdone herself. This is an unforgettable portrait of a family that ventures out to sea, only to be riven by the weight of the past, and the politics of the present. Piercingly written and compelling from beginning to end, Sea Wife is a major accomplishment.
Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone
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