1/6/2024 0 Comments Wild heart set wow![]() An acquaintance at the gym swimming pool is pregnant with peregrine falcons another woman’s brother is becoming a zebra. ![]() The process is described with such specificity and physicality that the fantastical becomes, if not mundane, then at least believable. In the world of the book, human-to-animal mutations are a lamentable but very real fate, like metastatic cancer or mental illness. “Shark Heart” succeeds because it doesn’t function solely on the level of metaphor. This isn’t only a whimsical concept, though it’s that too. When he tells Wren the bad news, she quips, “They say the first year of marriage is the hardest.” The joke has a hard kernel of grief at its center - because, of course, “there would not be another year to measure against this first one.” By the end of the year, Lewis will transform into a great white shark. ![]() That explains his nose turning to nothing but cartilage, his intense thirst and appetite, and all those loose molars. In Emily Habeck’s beguiling first novel, Lewis and Wren have been married for only a few weeks when Lewis is diagnosed with a Carcharodon carcharias mutation. SHARK HEART: A Love Story, by Emily Habeck
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