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Otter Music

By Karen Joy Fowler
Otter Music by Karen Joy Fowler digital book - Fable

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FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES

If you couldn't save the world, she'd written, you should still save whatever you could, words she still lived by.


When Lainey Miller's dad began believing in lizard people who sought world domination, her mom decided that Lainey needed to be a person who believed in verifiable data. So began a lifelong pursuit and love of science, of the beauty of the natural world and its wildlife.

Through her work, Lainey finds stillness in a world humming with change, a world that she believes - despite the constant news cycle of destruction and cruelty - has an infinite capacity for kindness. A love letter to community, to learning, and to life itself, Karen Joy Fowler's new novella points towards the glimmer of hope on the horizon, urging us to stay for the view.

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“The story itself is somber and not full of action. It has some light and humorous moments, but it is mostly brooding and introspective. It is a quiet think piece, a slice of life, a peer into one woman's search for meaning in her life. Set in one of my favorite places on earth, Lainey lives alone with her dog Ozzy, researching sea otters at UC Santa Cruz. While the story is philosophical and at times melancholy, I loved the message of hope and of believing that humans are ultimately a good species that loves and has compassion, despite what we have done to the environment and each other. I'm not sure there is a more perfectly written book for someone like me. To say I could relate to the main character would be a vast understatement. I, too, grew up in Northern California, went to Monterey Bay Aquarium as a child and fell in love with the sea otters, felt like a complete outcast throughout childhood, and ended up studying sea otters in grad school. It was my biggest accomplishment in academia to present at a nationwide conference on conservation programs of sea otters. I think the only gripe I had about this book was I wish it was much longer. I wish it was a full size novel that delved deeper into these characters' lives.”

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