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kobvindex_ZLB35124222
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9781035019403
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" For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea 'Absolutely stunning . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!' 8211 Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceRo is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager. When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction. Wading through memories of her youth, Ro has one last chance to come to terms with her childhood trauma, recommit to those around her, and find her place in an ever-changing world. 'Utterly original' 8211 Bryan Washington, author of Memorial 'Sea Change stole my big weirdo heart' - Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl "
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Biographisches: "Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Catapult, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review and Idaho Review among others. She is also the author of the story collection Green Frog . Sea Change is her first novel." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2023 In Chung’s delightful and slightly off-kilter debut, a woman comes to terms with her arrested development while bonding with an octopus. Ro, 30, spends her days working a mundane job at a mall aquarium where she cares for Dolores, an octopus her marine biologist father discovered on an expedition. When her best friend and coworker Yoonhee delivers the unfortunate news that a tech investor has bought Dolores as part of a trend among wealthy people to build private aquariums, Ro finally begins dealing with a series of disruptions in her life, among them that Yoonhee is getting married and has distanced herself from Ro. When they get together for drinks, Ro holds awkwardly onto the past, drinking the Mountain Dew cocktails they invented in college while Yoonhee drinks wine. Making matters worse, Ro’s astronaut boyfriend has just broken up with her to join a new colony on Mars, a development she mulls over while watching Dolores’s mating rituals (“I wasn’t about to empathize with a thirsty octopus over her sexual needs when I hadn’t gotten laid in months”). More poignantly, Dolores represents Ro’s last remaining connection to her father, who disappeared during an expedition when she was a teen. As Ro cares for Dolores in the final days before the new owner comes to pick her up, Chung crafts a convincing portrayal of Ro’s grief and self-acceptance. This off-beat tale has heart. Agent: Danielle Bukowski, Sterling Lord Literistic. "
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