Amity Gaige Knows How to Write Tension

Amity Gaige is our featured author this week - her latest book is Sea Wife. But when we say latest - it’s been out for almost three years. With apologies, we just discovered it. Shame on us. It’s a book about a couple struggling with marital problems who decide (well the husband decides) to buy a sailboat and head for open waters. His wife isn’t crazy about the idea of sailing around the world so they settle on the Caribbean. That proves to be difficult enough. Amity makes marvelous use of foreshadowing. The wife Juliet is writing her remembrances of the sail. Her husband Michael is heard through his log book of the sail. Why? Well that’s part of the mystery incorporated in a good sea yarn. Our bookstore this week is a good one. Book Ends in Winchester, MA under new ownership -- Lauren Tiedemann and Jillian Hartline.

Books mentioned in this podcast:

• Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
• Shroeder by Amity Gaige
• O My Darling by Amity Gaige
• The Folded World by Amity Gaige
• The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
• What You are Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
• The Silent Woman by Janet Malcom
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike 
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• The Little French Bridal Shop by Jennifer Dupee
• The Paris Bookseller by Keri Maher
• The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

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