{"product_id":"9781772017014","title":"Sailors Can’t Swim","description":"\u003cp\u003eDanaé Berrubé-Portanguen, known as Danaé Poussin, is an orphan who possesses the rare gift of knowing how to swim. Alternately a saviour and a shipwrecker, she lives in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Ys, where the locals are obsessed with honour and courage. An island where even land-dwellers boast of being sailors, where only the bravest are granted the privilege of living within the fortified city, safe from the great equinoctial tides. Following the fate of shore-dwellers who must share beaches and borders, Danaé Poussin submits to the cycles that animate the movements of the sea as well as those that govern the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSailors Can’t Swim\u003c\/em\u003e is for anyone who has wondered whether it was the rising waters that made them cry – or their tears that made the waters rise. Dominique Scali delivers a breathtaking maritime adventure novel, set in an alternative eighteenth century salty with sea spray and blowing with the cruelty of the wind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dominique Scali (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Talonbooks |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-05-20","offer_id":47342907425023,"sku":"9781772017014","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI-2025-12-12T110321.303.jpg?v=1765555425","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781772017014","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}