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The Seas

Written by: Samantha Hunt, Maggie Nelson - Introduction
Narrated by: Samantha Hunt
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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 11 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 13 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.

With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls listeners into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.

©2004 Samantha Hunt (P)2019 Tantor Classics Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magic Romance
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I personally did not enjoy it at all. Even after listening to it all in one day, I feel like I want those hours back. A girl who loves a man and thinks she is a mermaid. I still don't know if she is one or is insane. If you like ambiguous plots that make you feel smart than this is for you, but if you like interesting plots and and being entertained than read something else.

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