The Sea: A Love Story

"In 1964, Sophie Blackall's parents stepped aboard the Fairsea, her mother on her way to marry someone else entirely, a wedding dress in tissue paper in a trunk in the hold. Over sixty years later, Blackall makes her own voyage to create an illustrated memoir, complete with maritime miscellany and extraordinary artwork. In her 24 days at sea, the singular Sophie Blackall embarks on The Sea: A Love Story. She paints, writes, and contemplates her parents' short-lived marriage; the happenstance of her existence; her own short-lived first marriage; the intoxicating joy of falling in love again; her fascinations with floating libraries, packing lists, fossils, sturgeon, Melville, memory, marbles, Anne Frank, menopause, Beatrix Potter, sea pie, stick maps, shanties, stowaways, babies, the passage of time, the evolution of stories, and the interconnectedness of all things"-- Provided by publisher.