The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona is partnering with Tome Gnome and Tucson Spotlight to host another great Solutions-Focused Community Book Club on January 23, 2025! This January, we will be discussing Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield.

When: January 23, 2025 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: CFSA Campus
Book: Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Light refreshments will be provided.

“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” ―NPR

“Shocking…Achingly poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an exquisite―even sadistic―sense of suspense.” ―Ron Charles, The Washington Post


In this book…. Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home.

As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp. By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.

This Solutions-Focused Community Book Club aims to bring together interested community members from all walks of life to bond over a shared desire to make our community better for all – and be inspired by a shared reading experience!

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