Float, by Joeann Hart as a child and young

as a child and young man

Passionate and pitiless

Mindy Mejia's gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve

a chance meeting with family friend and sociopathic millionaire Sonny Warner ushers Michael into the hierarchy of illegal gambling

working with the surrealists

Float, by Joeann Hart as a child and youngWhen everything around you is sinking, sometimes it takes desperate measures to stay afloat. When Duncan Leland looks down at the garbage strewn beach beneath his office window, he sees the words God Help Us scrawled in the sand. While it seems a fitting message not only is Duncan's business underwater, but his marriage is drowning as well he goes down to the beach to erase it. Once there, he helps a seagull being strangled by a plastic six pack