The Seas

"The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you''re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." Maggie Nelson"[It] blew me away because of the ...

"The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you''re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." Maggie Nelson"[It] blew me away because of the beauty of the language . . . I found myself highlighting about 85% of the book for the language. It is so beautifully written" Jodi PicoultMoored 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, leavin