book review: Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel
The backstory: When I read Susanna Daniel's debut novel, Stiltsville , I gushed that "it's the most emotionally engaging novel I've read in quite some time ." It not only made my top ten of 2010 , it came in at number two. Given my love for Stiltsville , I was eager to see Daniel return to Miami with her second novel, Sea Creatures. The basics: In 1992, Georgia's college admissions consulting business has failed. When her husband Graham doesn't receive tenure at Northwestern, they move back to her native Miami, where a friend of Graham's has offered him a job studying hurricanes. Their three-year-old son Frankie hasn't spoken for eighteen months, but there seems to be no medical reason why. My thoughts: I foolishly sat down to start reading Sea Creatures before work one morning, and it was a struggle to not call in sick. One again, Daniel's writing captured me from the opening page. It's the first print book to capture me with writing ...