As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.īy turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. An electrifying and haunting contemporary gothic tale - intense, transcendental, claustrophobic and absolutely fascinating. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. This debut novel, in which a woman returns from a voyage to the deep sea strangely altered, is a slippery marriage of the mundane and the uncanny. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor.

EDT (Elizabeth von Oehsen/The Washington Post) 5 min Gift Article Lovers drift apart. 'Shocking.Achingly poetic.Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps.Armfield exercises an exquisite-even sadistic-sense of suspense.' -Ron Charles, The Washington Post ‘Our Wives Under the Sea’ is exquisitely suspenseful Review by Ron Charles Jat 12:28 p.m. 'A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way.An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.' -NPR A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor.

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