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Sea wife [large print] / Amity Gaige.

Gaige, Amity, 1972- (author.).

Summary:

"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: Juliet's first person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the life-changing events that unfolded at sea, and Michael's captain's 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."-- Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781432879259
  • ISBN: 1432879251
  • Physical Description: 441 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020.
Subject:
Survival at sea > Fiction.
Married people > Fiction.
Ocean travel > Fiction.
Parenthood > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Sailing > Fiction.
Married people.
Genre:
Sea fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Large print books.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 9 of 10 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Jacksonville Main Library LP FIC GAIGE (Text) 36015000363800 Adult Large Print Fiction Checked out 08/18/2026
Goldsboro Library LP GAI (Text) 640191004048792 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Henderson Main Branch GAI (Text) 33258009818134 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
High Point Library LP FIC Gaige Amity (Text) 30519010566357 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library LT GAIGE (Text) 39149008225591 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Maggie Valley Library LPF Gaige (Text) 33115007682174 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Moore County Library LGPT FIC GAIGE (Text) 48198000854568 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Richard H. Thornton Main Library LPB FIC GAIGE (Text) 42756202262645 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Selma Public Library LP Gaige (Text) 38950611364508 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Thomasville Public Library LP GAI (Text) 25908008017480 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -

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