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The Sea Is My Brother warbly approximation of what the 21-year-old novelist must have hoped was a sophisticated high style." Chris Nashawaty of "Entertainment Weekly" awarded "The Sea Is My Brother" a B rating and described Kerouac as "still struggling to find his voice [but] you'll see hints of the bebop prose that would later pour out of Kerouac's typewriter so effortlessly." The Sea Is My Brother The Sea Is My Brother is a novel by the American author Jack Kerouac, published in 2011. The novel was written in 1942 and remained unpublished throughout Kerouac's lifetime due to his dissatisfaction with the novel. The plot