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Mar 10, 2015
In luminous, spare prose this novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl who finds her only solace at an aquarium in Seattle, where she spends time while waiting for her mother, a dockyard worker, to finish her shift. At the aquarium she meets a man who shares her love and respect for the fragile, beautiful forms of marine life. But in this friendship lies something darker that, once uncovered, threatens to destroy the fragile hold Caitlin and her mother have on life and sanity. There are scenes in this novel of family violence and despair that are almost unbearable to read. A beautiful, eloquent and profoundly disturbing novel.