A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The
Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more)
“A deeply
strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive
and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own
relationships in a new light.” —NPR
“Shocking…Achingly
poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an
exquisite—even sadistic—sense of suspense." —Ron Charles,
The Washington Post
Leah
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.
By
turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under
the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of
us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.
