7/6/2023 0 Comments Our wives under the sea genreShe has to shoulder their care, their finances, all while not knowing what’s wrong with her wife or being able to help her. Already an anxious hypochondriac and flawed human being, Miri struggles to deal with Leah’s inability to connect after returning home. Miri has to confront the fact that the life with Leah as she knew it is likely gone. While this book does have a gloriously eerie science fiction bent to it, the real beauty of this book is the way that Armfield copes with grief. What did Leah experience in that submarine stuck under the sea? For one thing, she has a new love of drinking water with salt in it. She’s finally home-but she isn’t the Leah that Miri remembers. In this book, Miri’s wife, Leah, has been gone on a submarine exploration mission for months longer than she was supposed to be. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield is in a genre of books I’m slowly growing to love: gently genre-bending, strange books that are technically, in the background, science fiction but are mostly about the protagonists and their character journey.
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