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Sage Island
by Samantha Warwick
"Sage Island weds seamless flapper-era detail with a mesmerizing story of athletic obsession. Savanna Mason's desperate underwater odyssey is an unforgettable, near-visceral reading experience."
-Lynn Coady, author of Mean Boy
It's the mid-1920s and New York is shimmering with the hope and vigour of a younger generation in headlong pursuit of greater freedoms and pleasures. Watching from the sidelines, nineteen-year-old Savanna Mason struggles with the gravity of her perceived failures, finding release and security in the water. Savi believes that her swimming has the power to change her world. Just as it seems this notion has been shattered for good, she embarks on a journey to the Wrigley Ocean Marathon-a twenty-two-mile race from Catalina Island to Los Angeles. Inspired by true events, with vivid glimpses of Prohibition, class antagonism and the evolving attitudes of the flapper era,
Sage Island is a poignant novel about a young woman diving and surfacing.
"The art and adrenaline rush of swimming has been poetically and powerfully captured. Warwick successfully launches you into the depths of heart-thumping history. You can't help but dive in and not surface until the book is completed."
- Joanne Malar, World Champion, three-Time Olympic Swimmer
Samantha Warwick was born in Montreal and raised in Sutton, Quebec and Vancouver. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia in 2003. Her work has been broadcast on cbc Radio and has appeared in various literary magazines including
Geist, Event, Room and echolocation. Samantha spent seven years coaching competitive swimming between 1997 and 2004, and has participated in long distance open-water swim races in British Columbia, California and New York. She now lives and works in Calgary where she is at work on her second novel.
