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Meri Miller lives in Soldotna, Alaska. Never heard of it? That's because in Slowdotna the most riveting activities for a teenager are salmon fishing and grabbing a Big Gulp at the local 7-Eleven. More than anything, Meri wants to hop in her VW Bug and head somewhere exciting, like New York or L.A. or any city where going to the theater doesn't only mean the movies. Everything is so scripted here-don't have too much fun, date this guy because he's older and popular, stay put because that's what everyone else does. But when her senior year should be all boys, SAT prep, and prom drama, Meri feels more and more distance between herself and the people she loves. Her grandma dies, her brother gets hurt, and even her best friend checks out to spend more time with some guy. As she struggles with family, grief, friends, and hormones, Meri must decide if she really is ready for the world beyond her backyard. Meagan Macvie's debut novel, The Ocean in My Ears, raises questions of love, purpose, and the power to choose your own future even when your future's the thing that scares you the most.
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"In The Ocean in My Ears, Meagan Macvie has given us an unforgettable evocation of life and love in Soldotna, Alaska, as seen through the eyes of almost-eighteen-year-old Meri Miller, who must find her way through the perils of youth and make painful decisions in a place where, in Macvie's sensitive and utterly authentic prose, landscape becomes language."
Mary Clearman Blew, author of This Is Not the Ivy League
"What makes Meagan Macvie's The Ocean in My Ears so compelling is the way it lands us in the sweet spot between the unique and the universal. Meri's uneasy coming of age mirrors that of girls all over America, but it's also richly and beautifully hers alone. As she wrestles with sex and death, love and bigotry, faith and doubt on Alaska's rugged and isolated Kenai Peninsula, we witness her passage
Scott Nadelson, author of Between You and Me
"Meagan Macvie's novel, The Ocean in My Ears, slams us into a world of teased bangs and hairspray in early 90's Soldotna, Alaska. The real Soldotna. Behind the tourist images, Macvie shows us a community of fishing, misogyny, and long winters preceded by an ecstatic, grief-stricken summer that only a seventeen-year-old girl, living on the edge of civilization, can experience. The Ocean in My Ears,
Missy Anne Peterson, author of Jimmy James Blood