For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea
'Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!' – Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face
Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars.
Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeno). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager.
When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction. Wading through memories of her youth, Ro has one last chance to come to terms with her childhood trauma, recommit to those around her, and find her place in an ever-changing world.
'Utterly original' – Bryan Washington, author of Memorial
'Sea Change stole my big weirdo heart' - Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from the New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Catapult, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Idaho Review, among others. She is also the author of the forthcoming story collection Green Frog. Sea Change is her first novel. THE LOVE OF HER LIFE IS IN OUTER SPACE, AND SHE'S ALL AT SEA...
