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"As the spouse of a newly-minted Navy submariner, Samantha soon discovers how little she and the other wives are permitted to know about the top secret workings of their husbands' lives while underway. When the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan goes quiet in November 2017, other than the reporting of an underwater ""seismic anomaly,"" a sound consistent with an implosion, Sam and her fellow Navy wives devise ways to keep themselves afloat during the excruciating silence of their husbands' sub. Wide-eyed Sam, at times unsure of her place in a world governed by reactors, warheads, and relentless operational tempo, eventually discovers a truth about the inner strength of women."

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Memorable, hopeful and haunting. Though the life of a military wife is unusual and largely unknown to civilians, ...its profound concerns regarding fate, love, intimacy, marriage, and following one's own path will resonate for any reader. Kathryn Rhett, editor of Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis and author of Near Breathing: A Memoir of a Difficult Birth Samantha writes elegantly, and the human drama here is consistently powerful, for all its crucial dailyness. Robert Polito, author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

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Samantha Otto Brown holds a BA in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her nonfiction work appears in PANK Magazine and Mizzou's EPIC. She lives with her husband, daughter, and dog in Lawrence, Kansas, and runs a blog, The Page & Print.

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