The Sea

I think my main takeaway from this book is that I didn't really get it. It is a book about loss, of a man's wife and of a childhood love, but I came to the end with no real sense of what these losses mean. The writing style was very hard to follow at first, moving without transitions between present day, the recent past dealing with the wife's illness, and a variety of memories from the distant childhood. I got used to it about halfway through the book, and the writing itself was evocative, but overall, this wasn't for me.