Emily Habeck

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis: He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist’s heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams. At first, Wren internally resists her husband’s fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis’s developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with her college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds.

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis: He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist’s heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams. At first, Wren internally resists her husband’s fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis’s developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with her college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds.

Was bedeutet es, ein Mensch zu sein? Wren und Lewis sind frisch verheiratet, als das Paar durch eine seltene Diagnose erschüttert wird. Lewis wird einen Großteil seines Bewusstseins, seiner Erinnerungen und seines Intellekts behalten, doch sein Körper wird sich in den eines weißen Hais verwandeln. Während Lewis die Züge und Triebe einer fleischfressenden Kreatur annimmt, kämpft sein kompliziertes Künstlerherz darum, mit seinen Fehlern Frieden zu schließen. Gleichzeitig bleibt Wren nichts anderes übrig, als ihren Mann liebevoll in eine ungewisse Zukunft zu begleiten und erneut zuzusehen, wie ihr ein geliebter Mensch entgleitet.