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Becoming the Ocean: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Erin RussTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/DivorcePublish date:9/16/2026Pages:258
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Twenty Fourteen PressISBN-13:9798996274642UPC:9798996274642Book Category:Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Divorce & Separation, Memoirs, Special InterestBook Topic:AdventureSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SC8Y01RAX2

A 10,000-mile voyage to save a marriage. A secret that could destroy it.

In her early thirties, running from a mistake she desperately wants to keep secret, Erin sets sail with her husband, Brian, on a 10,000-mile voyage across the Pacific. What begins as an attempt to salvage her relationship quickly becomes a reckoning. On the open ocean, there is nowhere left to hide.

Far from shore, Erin is forced to confront a painful truth: saving her marriage might mean losing herself.

Juxtaposing the awe-inspiring, boundless beauty of the open ocean with the claustrophobic, high-stakes tension of a fracturing marriage, Becoming the Ocean is a courageous and unflinchingly honest portrayal of a woman confronting the ways she has performed goodness, chosen safety over truth, and stayed too long in a life that no longer felt like her own.

For readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Belle Burden's Strangers, this book is for anyone who has built a life based on who they think they should be, and is ready to start becoming who they really are.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Twenty Fourteen PressISBN-13:9798996274642UPC:9798996274642Book Category:Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Divorce & Separation, Memoirs, Special InterestBook Topic:AdventureSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SC8Y01RAX2
Russ, Erin: - Erin Russ lives in Southern California with her partner and son. She spent two years sailing across the Pacific Ocean on her boat, S/V Delos-an experience that still shapes her and informs the questions she asks on the page. Her writing explores themes of grief and betrayal, the ways we perform goodness, and the long journey home to authenticity. When she's not writing, she is hiking on the trails near her home or frolicking in the chilly Pacific Ocean. Becoming the Ocean is her debut memoir.
Publisher: Twenty Fourteen Press

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