diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c9f1e85..32bc376 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change log follows the conventions of [keepachangelog.com](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Fixed
+- Bug where one too many indirections is used when serializing/deserializing pointer types
 
 ## [1.0.472] - 2024-10-03
 ### Added
diff --git a/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj b/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj
index 7dde14a..955d821 100644
--- a/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj
+++ b/src/clj/coffi/mem.clj
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@
     (if (sequential? type)
       (let [segment (alloc-instance (second type) arena)]
         (serialize-into obj (second type) segment arena)
-        (address-of segment))
+        segment)
       obj)
     null))
 
@@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@
     (if (sequential? type)
       (let [target-type (second type)]
         (deserialize-from
-         (.reinterpret ^MemorySegment (read-address addr)
+         (.reinterpret ^MemorySegment addr
                        ^long (size-of target-type))
          target-type))
       addr)))