About the book

Marta Reyes has not spoken to her sister in eleven years when the boat arrives: a thirty-two-foot sloop, willed to them jointly by a father neither of them buried. The terms are simple and absurd—sail it together from Cadiz to the island where they were born, or sell it and split the silence for good.

The Quiet Latitude is a novel about the distances we navigate and the ones we refuse to. Over nineteen days at sea, two sisters discover that an ocean passage strips conversation of everywhere to hide: there is weather, there is watchkeeping, and eventually, unavoidably, there is the year everything went wrong.