Samantha Hunt's debut novel, The Seas, won a National Book Foundation award for writers under thirty-five. She is also the author of Mr. Splitfoot, The Dark Dark: Stories, and The Invention of Everything Else. Hunt's writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, McSweeney's, and elsewhere.
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Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returne... SEE MORE