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I. Anne Carson, H of H Playbook / II. Black Sails, Episode II / III. Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems I: 1965-1975 / IV. Wilhelm List, Umarmung (1905) / V. Florence + The Machine, What the Water Gave Me / VI. Unknown / VII. Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
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There's an old story about a sailor who incurred the wrath of a vengeful sea god, costing him ten years of his life during his odyssey home from war to the wife and child he left behind in his faraway kingdom. In the course of his journey, the sailor encounters a ghost who promises him a way to find peace once he is home; telling the man to take up an oar and walk inland with it in hand until he comes across someone who mistakes the oar for a shovel. For that will be the place where no man has ever been troubled by the sea, the ghost imparts. And that is where you will find your peace.
Ione Solace has been trying to walk away from the sea for her entire life.
It is no easy thing to walk out of your own myth. Ione knows this. She has listened to enough of her half-mad father's morbid stories and songs to recognize the futility of fighting fate. Even if she had not heard so many ballads of tragic heroes, felled by fatal flaws of pride or greed or, worst of all, love, she did not have to look far to find proof of what she already knew to be true. Not since her mother—a mythical figure in the eyes of the nation of Panem after her victory in the 51st Hunger Games—sank beneath the tides of District 4's stormy shores, only resurfacing once her lungs were flooded with saltwater and her heart had long since stopped beating; never to walk away from the sea and find her peace.
