When everything around you is sinking, sometimes it takes desperate
measures to stay afloat. When Duncan Leland looks down at the
garbage-strewn beach beneath his office window, he sees the words
God Help Us scrawled in the sand. While it seems a fitting
message-not only is Duncan's business underwater, but his marriage
is drowning as well-he goes down to the beach to erase it. Once
there, he helps a seagull being strangled by a plastic six-pack
holder-the only creature in worse shape than he is at the moment.
Duncan rescues the seagull, not realizing that he's being filmed by
a group of conceptual artists and that the footage will soon go
viral, turning both him and the gull into minor celebrities. And
when an unsavory yet very convincing local, Osbert Marpol, talks
him into a not-quite-legitimate loan arrangement, Duncan can't help
but agree in a last-ditch attempt to save the jobs of his
employees. For a while, it seems as if things are finally looking
up for Duncan-yet between his phone-sex-entrepreneur
ex-girlfriend's very public flirtations and the ever-mysterious
terms of his new loan, Duncan realizes that there's no such thing
as strings-free salvation-and that it's only a matter of time
before the tide rises ominously around him again. A wry tale of
financial desperation, conceptual art, insanity, infertility,
seagulls, marital crisis, jellyfish, organized crime, and the
plight of a plastic-filled ocean, JoeAnn Hart's novel takes a
smart, satirical look at family, the environment, and life in a
hardscrabble seaside town in Maine.
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