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'Startlingly brilliant' Spectator
'A triumph' Daily Mail
'One of America's most powerful writers' Times Literary Supplement
Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother - a docker at the local container port - in subsidised housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin is transported to a shimmering universe beyond her own.
When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamoured by the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother towards a precipice of terrifying consequence.
'A triumph' Daily Mail
'One of America's most powerful writers' Times Literary Supplement
Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother - a docker at the local container port - in subsidised housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin is transported to a shimmering universe beyond her own.
When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamoured by the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother towards a precipice of terrifying consequence.
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"Startlingly brilliant". (Spectator). "A triumph"., (Daily Mail). Aged nine, Caitlin spends almost every afternoon at the local aquarium while her mother works overtime at her construction job. Caitlin's whole world is her school, her mother, occasionally her mother's boyfriends, and the fish at the aquarium., She has no friends at school, apart from Shalini, who is making a paper mache Hindu reindeer with her, and no other family. But Caitlin has made a friend at the aquarium; an old man who seems to know something about Caitlin, something she doesn't even know about herself.
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"A triumph" (Daily Mail)
"His prose is as clear, fresh and invigorating as a starry winter night on an Aleutian mountainside, and his intriguing scenarios make his books easy to devour in a few urgent sittings" (The Times)
"A stirring tale that isn’t as simple as it first appears." (Esquire)
"A blue-collar parable ... [The character] looks back on her life as a child looks into a tank, hoping to make sense of the world inside – a theme that Vann develops beautifully, creating a mysterious realm of the wintry American city’" (Guardian)
"Vann spins a powerful tale of guilt and resentment, steeped in the atmosphere of a bleak winter city" (Mail on Sunday)
"His prose is as clear, fresh and invigorating as a starry winter night on an Aleutian mountainside, and his intriguing scenarios make his books easy to devour in a few urgent sittings" (The Times)
"A stirring tale that isn’t as simple as it first appears." (Esquire)
"A blue-collar parable ... [The character] looks back on her life as a child looks into a tank, hoping to make sense of the world inside – a theme that Vann develops beautifully, creating a mysterious realm of the wintry American city’" (Guardian)
"Vann spins a powerful tale of guilt and resentment, steeped in the atmosphere of a bleak winter city" (Mail on Sunday)
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- PublisherWindmill Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0099592258
- ISBN 13 9780099592259
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages272
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