Set sail for lively conversation with our next book club pick\, Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst! A \;Marriage \;At \;Sea \;pairs high \;seas \;adventure with a lov e story that asks why we love difficult people\, and who we become under t he most extreme conditions imaginable.
\nMaurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner\, awkward and obsessive\; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream- -as we all dream--of running away from it all. What if they quit their job s\, sold their house\, bought a boat\, and sailed away? Most of us begin a nd end with the daydream. But Maurice began to study nautical navigation. Maralyn made detailed lists of provisions. And in June 1972\, they set sai l. For nearly a year all went well\, until deep in the Pacific\, a breachi ng whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive on the wild ocean\, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft\, starving and exhausted\, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay al ive but ways to get along\, as their inner demons emerge and their \;m arriage \;is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run awa y from the world\, they can't run away from themselves.
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