A Marriage at Sea

ΓÇ£Gird your loins and line up your coupleΓÇÖs therapist.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇô New York Times Book Review podcast ΓÇ£This is nonfiction that reads like fiction ΓÇô the best kind. ElmhirstΓÇÖs retelling is a triumph,second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You wonΓÇÖt be able to put it down.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇô USA Today ΓÇ£A beautiful meditation on endurancecodependenceand the power of love. A dazzling book.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇô Patrick Radden Keefe ΓÇ£Starkelementaland sure to be a classic.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöHampton Sides ΓÇ£An enthrallingengrossing story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöBill Bryson The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsessionsurvivaland partnership stretched to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. HeΓÇÖs a lonerawkward and obsessive; sheΓÇÖs charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream ΓÇô as we all dream ΓÇô of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobssold their housebought a boatand sailed away? Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But in June 1972Maurice and Maralyn set sail. For nearly a year all went welluntil deep in the Pacifica breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild oceanwith little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raftstarving and exhaustedMaurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get alongas their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the worldthey canΓÇÖt run away from themselves. Tautpropulsiveand dazzlingA Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult peopleand who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.