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An intense and powerful novel about losing ones way and then finding it again in the unlikeliest of places. I found it moving, thought-provoking and gripping in equal measure. -- Ian McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of The North Water Trapped undersea in a capsized shrimping trawler, a damaged former war correspondent is forced to confront a deadly secret from his past as he struggles to survive in this gripping novel of trauma, loss, love, and redemption from award-winning journalist and author of The Things They Cannot Say Kevin Sites. Former war correspondent Lukas Landon is alone, trapped under 150-feet of water in an overturned shrimp trawler at the bottom of the ocean. The only thing keeping him alive is an air bubble in the ships bow. But the water level is rising, and time is running out. Landon doesnt know if he will survive . . . or if he even deserves to. After years of covering bloody battles in Afghanistan and Iraq, Landons once promising life took a steep nosedive. But he may have found a path to redemption: a series of in-depth stories on the Philomena, the rarest of South Carolina shrimp boats skippered by decorated former army sergeant Clarita Esteban. A Black woman struggling to survive in a white mans world, Clarita has assembled a crew of misfits as deeply wounded as herself; a Cuban first mate who came to America during the Mariel boatlift and his troubled younger cousin; a quiet Haitian cook with a secret black book; a deckhand, the only member of the ships former crew willing to work for a Black female skipper; and Claritas daughter, who lost a college basketball scholarship to an injury. As Landon slowly earns the disparate crews trust, uncovering their pasts--and how each landed aboard this rusty bucket of bolts with its own ...
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