PositiveFull StopSamantha Hunt wrote The Seas in 2004. It’s always a slight shock whenever this fact comes to mind while reading the book, which feels so 2018 that it’s hard to imagine that anyone could have anticipated the gradual and severe bleakening of the world that would occur from so far out and with such precision. Yet, The Seas does just that, telling a story of grief, abandonment, and catastrophe overlain with a seasick kind of futurism, one that looks ahead to disaster rather than progress ... One of the main achievements of the book is to invest this love story– which, from first glance, is an uneasy one– with an even heavier and more intense anxiety.
