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Author:

Vann, David, author.

Title:

Aquarium / David Vann.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Atlantic Monthly Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

266 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Family secrets--Fiction.
Schoolgirls--Fiction.
Aquariums--Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction.
Secrets--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Forgiveness--Fiction.
Poor--Fiction.
Public welfare--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Aquariums--Fiction.
Aquariums.
Family secrets.
Schoolgirls.
Washington (State)--Seattle.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945).
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction: general & literary.

Summary:

"Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother-- a docker at the local container port-in subsidized 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 accesses a shimmering universe beyond her own. When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamored of the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence. In crystalline, chiseled yet graceful prose, Aquarium takes us into the heart of a brave young girl whose longing for love and capacity for forgiveness transforms the damaged people around her."-- Jacket flap.

ISBN:

080212352X
9780802123527

OCLC:

(OCoLC)902771398

LCCN:

2015506195

Locations:

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston) — Copies: 20