num_pages: 193
description: 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."
language: English
title: The Seas
titlecomplete: The Seas
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Magical Realism, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Mermaids, Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 6579
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Picador