Unless explicitly stated that they are free, all books that I review have been purchased by me or borrowed from the library. Publication Information.
She understands the inner and the outer world—from quiet misery to murderous seas—and there is no world she cannot explore and illuminate." Apr 2020
"[T]he seafaring sections are gripping...Yet the novel is also a ship carrying a lot of ballast, as Gaige sometimes strains to keep the couple's parrying going: spats, riffs on parenting, literary analysis, and a late-breaking murder mystery that feels tacked-on. Michael’s sections are his Captain’s Log, which also reads like a diary/journal about his feelings. - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
What could go wrong? 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--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. So my practice of not reading the summaries of a novel before I pick it up may have foiled me this time. I Wish: Even though Sea Wife is engaging and is unputdownable at times, I wish the transition between time periods and perspectives had been clearer. By the time he is discharged, Sea Wife has gone. Goodreads A wholly original take on one of our oldest stories--survival at sea--it also asks a pertinent question for our polarized political moment: How does a crew with deep philosophical differences and outmoded gender roles bring a ship safely to shore?
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver. The problem of which way to go. Sea Wife is a portrait of a marriage in deadlock, intricately structured and gorgeously written. AMITY GAIGE is the author of four novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife (Knopf, April 2020). Which is not to say they did not whine at sea, that they did not cry at the worst times, or need their crusts cut just so, but as it turned out, they had a deep capacity for witness. Meet the Author, Amity Gaige. The tale is narrated to two voices, Juliet speaking in first person after her return to Connecticut and Michael’s very verbose entries in the yacht’s log. The sections work together well. This is an unforgettable novel."
Reviews |
"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Pingback: April 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: May 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: Spring 2020 TBR | Reading Ladies. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy.
"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. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publisher's Weekly, among others.
Nope, not now at my age and not even if I was younger.Yet this is exactly what Juliet agrees to do, despite her misgivings. Readers' Most Anticipated Books of November. It's an exploration of marriage and. Who’s fault is it if I was expecting this to be something it isn’t? Things are fine at first until the unexpected happens. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. All rights reserved. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. If you enjoy stream-of-consciousness writing, you will enjoy this aspect. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” There’s a lot to parse through here: marriage, depression, motherhood, chasing your dreams.
Sea Wife is I assume referring to the boat in this book, named Juliet after the wife in the family who take to the sea for a year. Of course, things go wrong both on the boat, and with their already failing marriage. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This kind of book is a rarity for me: a book I didn’t like till I found nearing the end that I did – very much. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants." More Information |
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. Wonderful book about a couple with a rocky marriage taking a year out of their life’s to sail a boat around the Caribbean with their two small children.
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Unless explicitly stated that they are free, all books that I review have been purchased by me or borrowed from the library. Publication Information.
She understands the inner and the outer world—from quiet misery to murderous seas—and there is no world she cannot explore and illuminate." Apr 2020
"[T]he seafaring sections are gripping...Yet the novel is also a ship carrying a lot of ballast, as Gaige sometimes strains to keep the couple's parrying going: spats, riffs on parenting, literary analysis, and a late-breaking murder mystery that feels tacked-on. Michael’s sections are his Captain’s Log, which also reads like a diary/journal about his feelings. - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
What could go wrong? 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--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. So my practice of not reading the summaries of a novel before I pick it up may have foiled me this time. I Wish: Even though Sea Wife is engaging and is unputdownable at times, I wish the transition between time periods and perspectives had been clearer. By the time he is discharged, Sea Wife has gone. Goodreads A wholly original take on one of our oldest stories--survival at sea--it also asks a pertinent question for our polarized political moment: How does a crew with deep philosophical differences and outmoded gender roles bring a ship safely to shore?
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver. The problem of which way to go. Sea Wife is a portrait of a marriage in deadlock, intricately structured and gorgeously written. AMITY GAIGE is the author of four novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife (Knopf, April 2020). Which is not to say they did not whine at sea, that they did not cry at the worst times, or need their crusts cut just so, but as it turned out, they had a deep capacity for witness. Meet the Author, Amity Gaige. The tale is narrated to two voices, Juliet speaking in first person after her return to Connecticut and Michael’s very verbose entries in the yacht’s log. The sections work together well. This is an unforgettable novel."
Reviews |
"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Pingback: April 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: May 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: Spring 2020 TBR | Reading Ladies. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy.
"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. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publisher's Weekly, among others.
Nope, not now at my age and not even if I was younger.Yet this is exactly what Juliet agrees to do, despite her misgivings. Readers' Most Anticipated Books of November. It's an exploration of marriage and. Who’s fault is it if I was expecting this to be something it isn’t? Things are fine at first until the unexpected happens. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. All rights reserved. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. If you enjoy stream-of-consciousness writing, you will enjoy this aspect. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” There’s a lot to parse through here: marriage, depression, motherhood, chasing your dreams.
Sea Wife is I assume referring to the boat in this book, named Juliet after the wife in the family who take to the sea for a year. Of course, things go wrong both on the boat, and with their already failing marriage. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This kind of book is a rarity for me: a book I didn’t like till I found nearing the end that I did – very much. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants." More Information |
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. Wonderful book about a couple with a rocky marriage taking a year out of their life’s to sail a boat around the Caribbean with their two small children.
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Unless explicitly stated that they are free, all books that I review have been purchased by me or borrowed from the library. Publication Information.
She understands the inner and the outer world—from quiet misery to murderous seas—and there is no world she cannot explore and illuminate." Apr 2020
"[T]he seafaring sections are gripping...Yet the novel is also a ship carrying a lot of ballast, as Gaige sometimes strains to keep the couple's parrying going: spats, riffs on parenting, literary analysis, and a late-breaking murder mystery that feels tacked-on. Michael’s sections are his Captain’s Log, which also reads like a diary/journal about his feelings. - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
What could go wrong? 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--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. So my practice of not reading the summaries of a novel before I pick it up may have foiled me this time. I Wish: Even though Sea Wife is engaging and is unputdownable at times, I wish the transition between time periods and perspectives had been clearer. By the time he is discharged, Sea Wife has gone. Goodreads A wholly original take on one of our oldest stories--survival at sea--it also asks a pertinent question for our polarized political moment: How does a crew with deep philosophical differences and outmoded gender roles bring a ship safely to shore?
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver. The problem of which way to go. Sea Wife is a portrait of a marriage in deadlock, intricately structured and gorgeously written. AMITY GAIGE is the author of four novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife (Knopf, April 2020). Which is not to say they did not whine at sea, that they did not cry at the worst times, or need their crusts cut just so, but as it turned out, they had a deep capacity for witness. Meet the Author, Amity Gaige. The tale is narrated to two voices, Juliet speaking in first person after her return to Connecticut and Michael’s very verbose entries in the yacht’s log. The sections work together well. This is an unforgettable novel."
Reviews |
"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Pingback: April 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: May 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: Spring 2020 TBR | Reading Ladies. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy.
"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. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publisher's Weekly, among others.
Nope, not now at my age and not even if I was younger.Yet this is exactly what Juliet agrees to do, despite her misgivings. Readers' Most Anticipated Books of November. It's an exploration of marriage and. Who’s fault is it if I was expecting this to be something it isn’t? Things are fine at first until the unexpected happens. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. All rights reserved. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. If you enjoy stream-of-consciousness writing, you will enjoy this aspect. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” There’s a lot to parse through here: marriage, depression, motherhood, chasing your dreams.
Sea Wife is I assume referring to the boat in this book, named Juliet after the wife in the family who take to the sea for a year. Of course, things go wrong both on the boat, and with their already failing marriage. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This kind of book is a rarity for me: a book I didn’t like till I found nearing the end that I did – very much. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants." More Information |
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. Wonderful book about a couple with a rocky marriage taking a year out of their life’s to sail a boat around the Caribbean with their two small children.
Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email. There’s also a great deal of tension and a tone of sadness, desperation, and grief throughout the story. The author of Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel. 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. Michael’s mid-life crisis takes of the form of imagining the family going round the world at sea, though fortunately since Juliet has never been on a boat and Michael’s previous experience was day sailing on Lake Eire, they begin with coastal passages in the Caribbean. "Yes, that's a GREAT description of the street carts in Cartagena!" From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives. All mine! It alternates between two timelines and two main points of view: Juliet, home in Connecticut in the story's present, and Michael, writing in his ship's log on their yearlong sailing voyage months before.
Unless explicitly stated that they are free, all books that I review have been purchased by me or borrowed from the library. Publication Information.
She understands the inner and the outer world—from quiet misery to murderous seas—and there is no world she cannot explore and illuminate." Apr 2020
"[T]he seafaring sections are gripping...Yet the novel is also a ship carrying a lot of ballast, as Gaige sometimes strains to keep the couple's parrying going: spats, riffs on parenting, literary analysis, and a late-breaking murder mystery that feels tacked-on. Michael’s sections are his Captain’s Log, which also reads like a diary/journal about his feelings. - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
What could go wrong? 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--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. So my practice of not reading the summaries of a novel before I pick it up may have foiled me this time. I Wish: Even though Sea Wife is engaging and is unputdownable at times, I wish the transition between time periods and perspectives had been clearer. By the time he is discharged, Sea Wife has gone. Goodreads A wholly original take on one of our oldest stories--survival at sea--it also asks a pertinent question for our polarized political moment: How does a crew with deep philosophical differences and outmoded gender roles bring a ship safely to shore?
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver. The problem of which way to go. Sea Wife is a portrait of a marriage in deadlock, intricately structured and gorgeously written. AMITY GAIGE is the author of four novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife (Knopf, April 2020). Which is not to say they did not whine at sea, that they did not cry at the worst times, or need their crusts cut just so, but as it turned out, they had a deep capacity for witness. Meet the Author, Amity Gaige. The tale is narrated to two voices, Juliet speaking in first person after her return to Connecticut and Michael’s very verbose entries in the yacht’s log. The sections work together well. This is an unforgettable novel."
Reviews |
"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Pingback: April 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: May 2020 Reading Wrap Up | Reading Ladies, Pingback: Spring 2020 TBR | Reading Ladies. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre tells the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy.
"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. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel
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 Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publisher's Weekly, among others.
Nope, not now at my age and not even if I was younger.Yet this is exactly what Juliet agrees to do, despite her misgivings. Readers' Most Anticipated Books of November. It's an exploration of marriage and. Who’s fault is it if I was expecting this to be something it isn’t? Things are fine at first until the unexpected happens. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. All rights reserved. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. If you enjoy stream-of-consciousness writing, you will enjoy this aspect. “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” There’s a lot to parse through here: marriage, depression, motherhood, chasing your dreams.
Sea Wife is I assume referring to the boat in this book, named Juliet after the wife in the family who take to the sea for a year. Of course, things go wrong both on the boat, and with their already failing marriage. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This kind of book is a rarity for me: a book I didn’t like till I found nearing the end that I did – very much. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants." More Information |
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. Wonderful book about a couple with a rocky marriage taking a year out of their life’s to sail a boat around the Caribbean with their two small children.
