The Seal Wife (20 page)

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KATHRYN HARRISON is the author of the novels The
Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure,
and
Thicker Than Water.
She has also written a memoir,
The Kiss,
and an essay collection,
Seeking Rapture.
Her personal essays, including some from
Seeking Rapture,
have appeared in
The
New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine,
and other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children. She can be reached at [email protected].

Also by Kathryn Harrison

SEEKING RAPTURE

THE BINDING CHAIR

THE KISS

POISON

EXPOSURE

THICKER THAN WATER

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the
product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

2003 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2002 by Kathryn Harrison

Reader’s guide copyright © 2003 by Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The
Random House Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

RANDOM HOUSE TRADE PAPERBACKS and colophon are trademarks
of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Harrison, Kathryn.
The seal wife: a novel / Kathryn Harrison.
p. cm.

1. Anchorage (Alaska)—Fiction. 2. Kites—Design and construction—Fiction. 3. Meteoro-
logical stations—Fiction. 4. Meteorologists—Fiction. 5. Mute persons—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A67136 S43 2002
813’.54—dc21 2001048979

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