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Come join the Daytime Book Club as we discuss this month's book! New members are always welcome (we love meeting new people!). Registration is appreciated but not required.
This month we will discuss A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst. The description for the book is below:
The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. Maurice 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 jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away?
Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But Maurice began to study nautical navigation. Maralyn made detailed lists of provisions. And in June 1972, they set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching 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 alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can't run away from themselves.
Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage At Sea pairs adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
We look forward to seeing you all soon!
Interested in attending a future Daytime Book Club meeting? Take a look at our reading list below:
May 2026: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
June 2026: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
July 2026: A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
August 2026: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
September 2026: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
October 2026: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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