Starlit-Sage OP t1_jaeje38 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:30 PM

Reply to comment by Holiday_in_Carcosa in Our Wives Under the Sea is the BEST book I've read in a long time and I just wanna talk about it by Starlit-Sage

I'm so sorry your birthday sucked! If you get it, I really hope you enjoy it!

It does feel very "cosmic horror" in that sublime sense of "unknowability" at the bottom of the sea....

The PTSD isn't overt, but it definitely feels like an allegory because Leah experienced this traumatic event and she can't go back to her normal life, and no one in her normal life can understand what she experienced.