Leaving the Sea

By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus'sLeaving the Seais a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation.In the heartfelt ';I Can Say Many Nice Things,' a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian ';Rollingwood,' a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In ';Watching Mysteries with My Mother,' a son meditates on his mother's mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator's marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide.Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming,Leaving the Seais the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.