The Seas

"The Seastook 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 (from the Introduction)Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator ofThe Seasis 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, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Su…