"This is an irresistible coming of age fable, dappled with lyricism, briny honesty and good humor. It's as if Rachel Carson herself (or, say, John McPhee) had turned to fiction, bringing an exacting sense of the ebb and flow of nature to the story of one largely unsupervised boy and the exploration of his surroundings." -- Los Angeles Times
"This novel is so very special. If you reach the last page without having laughed out loud, felt tears well up or at least once sat back in wonder at the extraordinary descriptoins of the sea and its creatures, then you may quite simply be inhuman."
-- London Independent
"Graceful and inventive first novel ... [Lynch's] declarative style and vivid imagery allow the science of the ocean to blend easily with its poetry." -- New York Times Book Review
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