![]() ![]() The narrative interchanges between Leah and Miri’s perspective Leah’s is a journal account of her time in the murky depths, Miri’s is present day, grappling with her loss and the immeasurable distance between herself and her wife. The novel is divided into five parts that correspond with the layers of the ocean depth and its vertical zones: sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyssal, hadal. ![]() Armfield plays with a bodily tension between land and sea to great effect. At times, her body is watery, translucent, aquatic. She spends stretched out hours in the tub, listening to the white noise of the radio, drinking down salt water. We see Leah as if through water her mind remains submerged, sunken somehow. But Leah is different, not herself, as if she has returned with a part of the ocean within her. Leah has returned home, back to her wife Miri, after a deep-sea mission that turned from a three-week-long excursion into a six-month one. ![]()
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