A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really respect nonfiction that is both unflinching in fidelity to the truth of its subjects’ lives, but also demonstrates a tenderness for their humanity. In A MARRIAGE AT SEA, Sophie Elmhirst creates a faithful portrait of a relationship that not only survived an ordeal of incomprehensible danger, but which was built around it. The survival story itself is riveting, but I also appreciate how the book ponders the unique love between these two flawed but fearless people who craved escape more than anything and found it in each other.
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