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From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder a smart sophisticated page literary page-turner about 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 sailbFrom the highly acclaimed author of Schroder a smart sophisticated page literary page-turner about 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: Juliets first person narration after the journey as she struggles to come to terms with the life-changing events that unfolded at sea and Michaels captains 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. It is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism disillusionment and survival.(less)