In Marriage to the Sea, the Zamarins, a Jewish family of artists and activists, navigate the eco-crisis, political turmoil, personal losses, and the afterlife. In their love stories and adventures--spanning Paris, Venice, and a dreamy phantasmagorical underworld--each of them searches for the overlap between what the world needs and what they have to give. When Katya, a rebellious bi+ sustainability activist, is visited by her father's ghost one night, she decides he's urging her to change her life. She and her youngest sister Arielle--a recovering addict and Shakespearean actress past her ingenue sell-by date--head to Paris on a quest to help his environmentalist heroine, and, along the way, they discover unexpected new loves among the living and the dead. Their Aunt Julia (a TV villainess returned to experimental theater) also falls recklessly in love, just as her meddling brother--and the whole theater company--arrive to stay with her. At every turn, the characters are forced to navigate a world in which the sea is rising and new social movements are taking shape.
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
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978-1-961897-84-7 (9781961897847)
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Sarah Stone is the author of the novels The True Sources of the Nile and Hungry Ghost Theater, a finalist for the 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards. She is also the coauthor, with her spouse and writing partner, Ron Nyren, of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Sarah's work has appeared in Image, Ploughshares, 100 Word Story, StoryQuarterly, The Millions, Scoundrel Time, The Believer, CRAFT, Alta Journal online for the California Book Club, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, and elsewhere. She is a former LABA Fellow and a facilitator of the Jewish Studio Process and has taught for UC Berkeley, the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and Stanford Continuing Studies, among other places. She has written for and taught on Korean television, reported on human rights in Burundi, looked after orphan chimpanzees at the Jane Goodall Institute, and worked as a psychiatric aide in a locked facility, a graveyard-shift waitress in the restaurant where everyone went after they'd been thrown out of all the bars in town, and an office worker in an apparently haunted massage/bodywork school in the Santa Cruz mountains.
