02131cam a2200337 i 4500 950146838 TxAuBib 20230824120000.0 230802s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023024330 9781668006498 1668006499 TxAuBib rda Habeck, Emily, author. Shark heart : a love story / Emily Habeck. First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition. New York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2023. 408 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 a college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds. Woven throughout this bold novel is the story of Wren's mother, Angela, who becomes pregnant with Wren at fifteen in an abusive relationship amidst her parents' crumbling marriage. In the present, all of Wren's grief eventually collides, and she is forced to make an impossible choice"-- Provided by publisher. 20230824. Marriage Fiction. Grief Fiction. Metamorphosis Fiction. White shark Fiction. Romance fiction. Magic realist fiction. T3L