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This entire book is about grief. Specifically it focuses on grief that comes of disaster leaving you unprepared floating in confusion and at times desperate. I’d say looming loss is the main theme as seen through Miri’s mom dying of Alzheimer’s of her hypochondria and fear for her future health -what will Leah’s story become. She’s like a self fulfilling prophecy but it’s not gills she grows.

This woman, Leah, is going to be lost to the sea 🌊

Personal preference of mine: I don’t love the tone of this book. It’s very heavy and drawn out which is fitting given the plot surrounds Miri a hypochondriacs wife trudging through life with her wife who she gave up for dead after her 3 week submarine mission was drawn out to 6 months lost to the depths of the sea.🌊