One day, Claudia gets up from the bed where her body has been rotting and, without telling her husband, leaves the house. By the second page, she is living in an abandoned hotel by the sea. As her husband manipulates the landscape around her, tangling the streets and congealing the sea, Claudia encounters a series of cryptic women—runaways, alcoholics, husband killers, ghosts. The Seaside Hotel is a tale of escape fringed with madness and gloom. As Claudia becomes increasingly inhabited by the other women she meets, the borders of her being break down and blur. An exploration of memory, mutability, solitude, and time, The Seaside Hotel is above all an experiment in fiction—an inquiry into what you have left, when you’ve left everything behind.