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The Lobster Kings
by Alexi Zentner
I loved this book - The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner is definitely one of the best books I've read this year. The book chronicles the story of Cordelia King, the heir apparent to her father's lobster boating business. The King family has been fishing lobster off the cost of Loosewood Island for three hundred years. They have been blessed with the bounty of the sea, but also cursed - each generation of the King family loses something very precious to them (won't spell it out - spoilers). Zentner weaves the legend of Brumfitt King, the first lobster fisherman who came to the island from Ireland. Brumfitt takes his wife "from the sea" and paints his families history, as well as journals. Cordelia is fascinated by the history and legend, particularly when it comes to Brumfitt's selkie wife. Most of the book focuses on Cordelia's modern day problems; her relationships with her father, sisters, and her growing attraction to her married sternman, Kenny. Things become even more complicated when inhabitants of a neighboring island get into drugs and poaching lobsters off of Loosewood waters. A wonderful chronicle of tight-knit family and community that I found wholly believable.