The Love an Abalone Feels For the Sea: A Novel

In a remote Japanese fishing village, a grief-stricken boy teams up with a local diver to uncover the secret behind his sister’s tragic drowning

A mesh bag filled to the brim with wakame seaweed was all seventeen-year-old Ren Ioka’s sister, Nagisa, left behind when she disappeared off the coast of their remote Japanese fishing village. Nagisa was an ama—a traditional free diver who harvests abalone from the sea, a profession that stretches back over two thousand years. In this treacherous li...