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We picked this one up on a "library run," and my 16-year-old daughter, who happened to be reading Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea for high school English, pointed out many parallels.
She loved this story about how dolphin rustlers almost kill the MC's grandfather. The old man must survive the open sea on a tiny little rock until his stubborn, persistent, nature-loving grandson defies his parents and comes to save him.
Powerful stuff, wrapped in an eulogy of how rich, diverse and powerful the sea used to be in the Caribbean.
Thank you, Diana McCaulay. My daughter wishes there was something we all could do to restore it to its glory of 100 years ago.
