Hi. Again, I continue to try to center myself. I keep doing this because dystonia. Anyway, I'm doing another book review. This was one for The Ocean Above Me, and I was really hooked from the very first page, kind of almost. It's about a journalist who is embedded with a shrimping crew and the captain is a black woman who has served in the military and takes no shit from anybody, but is just a likable character also for all sorts of reasons. And I don't think I'm spoiling anything much. Consider the title, The Ocean Above Me. See, what happens is the boat goes down. They are so desperate to make a catch that they're out there in terrible weather and the boat goes down and this man, this journalist gets trapped in a place you don't want to get trapped in, let's put it that way.
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