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One of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years. This book will linger in your head for a good long time.—Dave Eggers

Hunt's spare narrative is as mysterious and lyrical as a mermaid's song. The strands of her story are touched with magic, strange in the best possible way and very pleasurable to read.—Andrea Barrett

The Seas is creepy and poetic, subversive and strangely funny, [and] a phenomenal piece of literature. —Michelle Tea

Hunt blends myth and reality — if her father is from the sea, our narrator wonders, then isn't such magic in her blood as well? — and ends up with something truly stunning.—BuzzFeed

Urgently real and magically unreal . . . A breathy, wonderful holler of a novel, deeply lodged in the ocean's merciless blue . . . [Hunt] sinks an anchor into the soul of its lost young protagonist.—The Village Voice

Spare, elegant, affecting . . . The Seas is a testament to doomed romanticism, to the ways in which we hang our hopes on impossible things becoming possible. —NYLON

This modern feminist fairytale reels you in with its strangeness and beauty and gives voice to the dark realities of alcoholism, mental illness and the everyday messiness of life.—Women@Forbes

An aqueous affair, flooded with water themes . . . Hunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction.—The New Yorker

In this dazzling, wrenching novel, Hunt challenges traditional mermaid mythology and constructs an unforgettable story about young womanhood in the process.—Bustle

It’s hard to imagine that a book so brief could tackle the Iraq war, grief over the loss of a parent, the longing for freedom, an enthrallment with the ocean, loneliness, sexual awakening, faith, and etymology, all in less than 200 pages, but Samantha Hunt has done it, and done it well.—Chicago Review of Books

To describe Samantha Hunt's entrancing first novel, The Seas, is to try to interpret a watery dream that pushes the boundaries between fiction and fantasy. . . . Hunt's nimbleness makes the idea of leaning toward mermaid fantasies enticing. —San Francisco Chronicle

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Samantha Hunt’s The Seas, her debut novel, won a National Book Foundation award for writers under thirty-five. She is also the author of Mr. Splitfoot, Dark, Dark: Stories, and  The Invention of Everything Else. Hunt's writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney's, A Public Space, Tin House, Cabinet, among others.

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books such as The Argonauts, Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tin House Books (July 10 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941040950
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941040959
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 340 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.46 x 2.54 x 20.57 cm
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    Samantha Hunt’s novel, Mr. Splitfoot, is about orphans who talk to the dead. It connects con artists, mothers and meteors in a subversive ghost story. The Dark Dark, Hunt's first collection of short stories, maps fear of the night. Hunt’s second book, The Invention of Everything Else, a novel about inventor Nikola Tesla, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her first novel, The Seas, won a National Book Foundation award for writers under thirty-five. Hunt’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Tin House, the New York Times and a number of other fine publications.

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Narrator is a 19-year-old girl, a protagonist with a witty tomboy’s voice, living in a remote, alcoholic seaside town in North America. Girl lives with her mum, who longs for New York, for the life she didn’t have, and with her grandfather, a typesetter who works on a dictionary and floods girl's mind with strange words and phrases. Her dad has disappeared eleven years ago, and the girl is convinced, he has returned to the ocean. “You come from the water,” dad has told her, so she starts to believe that she is a mermaid, and soaks in her bathtub for hours.

Girl is in love with an older man (her feelings are so intensive, she even imagines one night giving birth to his head). His name is Jude, and he is returned from Iraq as a distracted man. Is it possible for a mermaid to be with a mortal man? In the middle of the book Jude melts and becomes a puddle of water (and she drinks it up), the girl is accused of murder, sent to jail, but someone helps her to get out, leaving wet footprints for her to follow.

“The Seas” is a debut novel, written by American writer Samantha Hunt. It was published in 2004, and has been reissued many times, including last year. Dave Eggers, author of “Where the Wild Things Are”, has said about “The Seas” that it is “one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I’ve read in years,” and I couldn’t agree more. Plot and lines bend in my hands; unpredictable, loaded, flooded. You become an alert reader. The pages start to drip, so wonderfully wet is this book.

When the girl brakes out of jail and goes with her mum to the ocean to swim in the big waves, water is made out of words and phrases, “I pick out 'laughing' and throw it at her”, and my imagination tickles.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A bit confused and 'watery' for me!
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3.0 out of 5 stars took a while for me to find my rhythm with this
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