{"product_id":"the-sea-in-the-metro","title":"The Sea in the Metro","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the métro I ask her if she can see the sea.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe points at me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot la mère, I laugh. La mer! The sea!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI can''t see the sea, or myself as a mother, right now. All I see is sneakers and a skateboard and two shabby suitcases, one blue, one red. A soft, sweet head, curls tied up in pigtails, my face in them ...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJayne is a new mother in Paris trying to balance her creative ambition and lust for city life with the instinctual urges of motherhood - and failing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs her relationship with her husband and the city strains, she searches for answers in a friendship with an older Frenchwoman, the streets, the crowds, in art and writing and new wave cinema... but finds only more questions. 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A rare gem.''\u003cb\u003e--Natasha Brown, author of Universality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This is a book like sheet lightning: sudden, illuminating and sometimes terrifying. The Sea in the Metro tells the story of falling out of love with a city and back in love with life, the perfect denouement to Jayne Tuttle''s Paris trilogy. Frank. Devastating. Hilarious.''\u003cb\u003e--Tegan Bennett-Daylight, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Details\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003ci\u003eThe Sea in the Metro\u003c\/i\u003e is a paean to the big life, and depicts it in all its fizzing, thrilling complexity. A book of questions, longing, and falling in and out of love with motherhood, the city, and love itself. I adored it.''\u003cb\u003e--Dominic Amerena, author of \u003ci\u003eI Want Everything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Stunning. Her best yet. \u003ci\u003eThe Sea in the Metro\u003c\/i\u003e proves that Jayne Tuttle is a major talent.''\u003cb\u003e--Toni Jordan, author of \u003ci\u003eTenderfoot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Sometimes reading The Sea in the Metro is like looking in a mirror. Confronting. Other times it''s like watching a football match complete with involuntary gasps, the occasional boo and a loud and lusty cheering on of our heroine. Which is all to say that the book is an entirely immersive experience. What a feat Jayne Tuttle''s latest book is. I loved it.'' \u003cb\u003e--Sophie Cunningham, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Devastating Fever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A whirlwind of longing - mother-longing, lover-longing, artist-longing - this book will sweep you off your feet.'' \u003cb\u003e--Siang Lu, author of \u003ci\u003eGhost Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Epic, fearless and compellingly honest ... Tuttle''s writing rings with authenticity while facing the darker, utterly real moments of motherhood, desire and the beautiful, infuriating pursuit of art.''\u003cb\u003e--Katherine Brabon, author of \u003ci\u003eBody Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Living intersections of bodies and wit, there is an addictive element about it - memory, consciousness, motherhood.''\u003cb\u003e--Misha Honcharenko, author of \u003ci\u003eTrap Unfolds me Greedily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Lyrical, fierce and often funny, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea in the Metro \u003c\/i\u003eis a wonderfully vivid self-portrait of a young woman navigating the entanglements of love and loss, mortality and motherhood, creativity and paying the bills. It''s also a profound meditation on the idea of home. 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