The Seas
Author: Samantha Hunt
Desc: The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny remote alcoholic cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid granddaughter to a typesetter and daughter to a dead man awkward and brave wayward and willful she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced that she is a mermaid. What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison. What she does to get out is the stuff of legend. In the words of writer Michelle Tea The Seas is "creepy and poetic subversive and strangely funny [and] a phenomenal piece of literature."