Life Before Dolphins

A hybrid and moving novel mixing history, memoir, and fiction that speaks to universal themes of family, immigration, and history.

Awarded a fellowship at the New York Public Library, our narrator, Uribe, reflects on his life as an antimilitarist in the Basque Country, while researching the Hungarian activist and pacifist Rosika Schwimmer. As Uribe uncovers Rosika’s purpose in World War I, he struggles to understand his own ambitions as a migrant in a new country. The narrative weaves myth, ...