{"product_id":"our-wives-under-the-sea-pb","title":"Our Wives Under the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eOur Wives Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Shocking...Achingly poetic...Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps...Armfield exercises an exquisite--even sadistic--sense of suspense.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- Ron Charles, The Washington Post \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLeah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Armfield \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of the novels \u003ci\u003ePrivate Rites \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOur Wives Under the Sea, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror and Best Debut Novel, and the story collection \u003ci\u003esalt slow\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eGranta, Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon, \u003c\/i\u003e and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. She is the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Awards in 2019. She lives and works in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julia Armfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712516509981,"sku":"9781250229908","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250229908.jpg?v=1705255655","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/our-wives-under-the-sea-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}