Woven throughout this bold novel is the story of Wren’s mother, Angela, who becomes pregnant with Wren at fifteen in an abusive relationship amidst her parents’ crumbling marriage. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis’s developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with a college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist’s heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams.Īt first, Wren internally resists her husband’s fate. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. A gorgeous debut novel of marriage, motherhood, metamorphosis, and letting go, this intergenerational love story begins with newlyweds Wren and her husband, Lewis-a man who, over the course of nine months, transforms into a great white shark.įor Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last.
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