Aquarium

A lyrical and moving new novel from the author of Legend of a Suicide .§§Aged nine, Caitlin spends almost every afternoon at the local aquarium while her mother works overtime at her construction job. Caitlin s whole world is her school, her mother, occasionally her mother s boyfriends, and the fish at the aquarium. She has no friends at school, apart from Shalini, who is making a paper mache Hindu reindeer with her, and no other family.§§But Caitlin has made a friend at the aquarium; an old man who seems to know something about Caitlin, something she doesn t even know about herself.§

A lyrical and moving new novel from the author of Legend of a Suicide .§§Aged nine, Caitlin spends almost every afternoon at the local aquarium while her mother works overtime at her construction job. Caitlin s whole world is her school, her mother, occasionally her mother s boyfriends, and the fish at the aquarium. She has no friends at school, apart from Shalini, who is making a paper mache Hindu reindeer with her, and no other family.§§But Caitlin has made a friend at the aquarium; an old man who seems to know something about Caitlin, something she doesn t even know about herself.§