![]() To cope with her wife’s extended, unexplained absence, Miri turns to the internet for solace: specifically, a role-playing forum for the earthbound spouses of imaginary astronauts. ![]() ![]() Leah, a marine biologist with an infectious love for the sea’s mysteries, finds herself trapped in a malfunctioning submersible at the ocean floor while her wife, Miri, is left alone and without answers. The novel opens on a deep-sea expedition gone awry. Anchored in the ebb and flow of Miri and Leah’s alternating narratives, the novel chronicles the married couple’s efforts to live in the midst, and wake, of a crisis that defies easy explanation. ![]() “Every horror movie ends the way you know it will.” And what is love, Julia Armfield’s debut novel asks, if not a kind of slow-burn horror story-an attempt at living with an unknowable entity tinged, always, by the fear of loss?Īrmfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea is a poignant and unsettling queer Gothic romance, its portrayal of a relationship’s quiet, devastating erosion by turns melancholy, grotesque, surreal, and sublime. ![]()
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