A once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human. Lauren's life is falling apart. She has a storage unit full of candles she can't sell, a growing mountain of debt, and a teenage daughter, Dove, who is growing more and more withdrawn. Then her husband sends her a shocking text: "Lauren, I want a divorce." Sharply observed, darkly funny, and moving, it is a novel about the fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, and learning how to choose between what is worth saving and what needs to be let go.
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