![]() 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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