

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Essex-- Open Book: The Seas
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join our book buyer and event manager, Laurel, each month to discuss one of her recommended titles. February's selection is The Seas by Samantha Hunt.  Grab your copy in-store or online, and come prepared for a lively discussion (including spoilers)!  

About the book: 
Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She’s often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.

True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend.

With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls readers into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.

DATE: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 6PM

LOCATION: Phoenix Books Essex, 2 Carmichael Street, Essex VT, 05452

ADMISSION: This event is free and open to all!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/essex/essex-open-book-the-seas/200029671749443
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029671749443?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=essex-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Essex
- **state**: VT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Phoenix Books
- **lat**: 44.50805
- **long**: -73.08565
- **full address**: Phoenix Books, 2  Carmichael St,Essex Center, Vermont, Essex, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Phoenix Books Essex & Burlington (https://allevents.in/org/phoenix-books-essex-and-burlington/10428982)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Phoenix Books, 2  Carmichael St,Essex Center, Vermont, Essex, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Phoenix Books Essex & Burlington
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Essex-- Open Book: The Seas ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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