AQUARIUM

"Provocative and unforgiving" (Kirkus)

Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives in Seattle with her mother, Sheri, who works as a laborer in the shipping port. Caitlin loves exotic fish and walks to the public aquarium every day after school to wait for her mother to finish work. There, she meets a man who is more than what he seems. He will reshape Caitlin and Sheri’s lives, drawing in Sheri’s new boyfriend, Steve, and Caitlin’s best friend, Shalini, along the way. Together, these vivid and remarkable characters struggle with past and present choices through fierce dramatic scenes that will end in the re- making of a family and the triumph of forgiveness. David Vann is an internationally bestselling author whose books in- clude Goat Mountain, Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island, Dirt, A Mile Down, and Last Day on Earth and whose work has been translated into eighteen languages. He is the winner of several prizes, including France’s Prix Medicis Etranger, Spain’s Premi Llibreter, the Grace Paley Prize, a California Book Award, and the AWP Nonfiction Prize. A for- mer Guggenheim Fellow, Wallace Stegner Fellow, and National En- dowment for the Arts fellow, he is a professor at the University of War- wick in England. He lives in New Zealand, England, and Turkey.