Aquarium

"Like Melville, Faulkner, and McCarthy, Vann is already one of the great ones of American literature."—ABC(Spain)“Vann's prose is as pure as a gulp of water from an Alaskan stream."—Financial TimesDavid Vann's dazzling debut Legend of a Suicide was reviewed in over a 150 major global publications, won 11 prizes worldwide, was on 40 “best books of the year" lists, and established its author as a literary master. Since then, Vann has delivered an exceptional body of work, receiving, among others, best foreign novel in France and Spain (France's Prix Medicis Etranger, Spain's Premi Llibreter), a California Book Award, and the mid-career St. Francis College Literary Prize. Aquarium, his implosive new book and first to be published by Grove, will take Vann to a wider audience than ever before.Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother—a docker at the local container port—in subsidized housing next to...