Amity Gaige with Caroline Leavitt

Award-winning author Amity Gaige celebrates the paperback release of her acclaimed novel SEA WIFE in an unforgettable virtual event. SEA WIFE is a staff favorite and has rave reviews from The Boston Globe, Publisher's Weekly, and The Wall Street Journal, who called it "Profound and universal... SEA WIFE achieves a lovely balance between the real and the metaphoric". During the event Amity will share her inspiration for the literary page-turner with award-winning author Caroline Leavitt (WITH OR WITHOUT YOU). 

Amity has kindly signed bookplates for everyone purchasing her latest book from An Unlikely Story, while supplies last. 

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ABOUT THE BOOK:
A New York Times Notable Book

"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning.  Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world.  Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants."
—Jennifer Egan

“Sea Wife brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the fraught and hidden dangers of domesticity, motherhood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.”
—Lauren Groff

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 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.  

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
AMITY GAIGE is the author of three previous novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, and Schroder, which was short-listed for the Folio Prize in 2014. Published in eighteen countries, Schroder was named one of best books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review,The Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Wall Street JournalKirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publisher's Weekly, among others. Gaige is the recipient of many awards for her previous novels, including Foreword Book of the Year Award for 2007; and in 2006, she was named one of the "5 Under 35" outstanding emerging writers by the National Book Foundation. She has a Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. She lives in Connecticut with her family.

Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 7:00pm
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Books: 
Sea Wife: A novel By Amity Gaige Cover Image
$16.00
Unavailable at this time
ISBN: 9780525566922
Published: Vintage - March 2nd, 2021

Sea Wife: A novel By Amity Gaige Cover Image
$26.95
Unavailable at this time
ISBN: 9780525656494
Published: Knopf - April 28th, 2020

O My Darling: A Novel By Amity Gaige Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781455553563
Availability: Available to Order
Published: Twelve - October 8th, 2013

With or Without You: A Novel By Caroline Leavitt Cover Image
Unavailable at this time
ISBN: 9781616207793
Availability: Not Available
Published: Algonquin Books - August 4th, 2020