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The Great Wide Sea (2008), a novel by M. H. Herlong, follows sixteen-year-old Ben Byron, who mourns the loss of his mother with his younger brothers, Gerry and Dylan, while spending a year at sea.

As Ben processes his grief, he clashes with his father, until he mysteriously vanishes from the boat one morning. Ben and his brothers continue their voyage while developing different theories about the reason for their father’s disappearance.

The novel explores how children form different coping strategies to make sense of the loss of their loved ones, proposing that they can emerge from grief more resilient and connected than before.

The novel begins shortly after Mrs.

Byron tragically dies in a car accident.

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Ben has a hard time coping with losing his mother, and barely remembers the last time he was happy. Meanwhile, the boys’ father tries to find a way for them all to constructively process their grief as a family. He decides to take them out of school to spend a