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Shortlisted for the 2024 Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year So Far by Audible
In the tradition of Karen RussellsSwamplandia!, 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.This is the story of a family falling apart, only to be brought back together again by an unlikely championa 1,000-pound aquatic mammal named Pebble.
Laurens life is a mess. She has a storage unit full of candles she cant sell, a growing mountain of debt, and a teenage daughter, Dove, who barely speaks to her. Then her husband sends her a text that changes everything.Eager to escape her problems, she drives herself and Dove south to her late mothers rundown trailerin Florida. While keeping her eccentric new neighbours atSwaying Palmsat bay, Lauren begins to untangle the truth abouther estranged mother. How did world-famous portrait photographer Imogen Starr end up at Swaying Palms?And what happened to her fortune and her photographs?
Meanwhile, Dove has secrets of her own. A mysterious photograph leads her to discover the abandoned Flamingo Key Aquarium and Tackle, where she meets Pebble, the worlds oldest manatee in captivity. It is Pebble, a former star attraction, and her devoted caretaker, Ray, who will hold the key to helping Lauren and Dove come to terms with Imogens unexpected legacy.
Darkly funny and sharply observed,Pebble & Doveis a moving novel about the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, and learning how to choose between whats worth saving and what needs to be let go.
