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Arms From the Sea
Arms From the Sea | Rich Shapero
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Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm - blue, watery, and wholly alien. He's rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the oceanic world they call "heaven". A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur and mysterious purpose. Lyle is horrified at first but soon finds himself falling for the Polyp, and the potent and bizarre creative potential he represents. Whimsical and outlandish but also timely and dead serious, Arms from the Sea navigates imagined realms of possibility, pointing to what it might mean to redeem a desolate world.
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Soubhiville
Arms From the Sea | Rich Shapero
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This author or his ap company we‘re giving away these tiny copies of his latest novel at Tx Book Fest. Apparently with the ap, you can read along to a soundtrack created for each of his books, and it seems maybe there are also visual effects that go with them? I won‘t be using the ap (even though it‘s free) because I find music distracting while I‘m reading. It‘s a pretty cool idea though! The ap is called TooFarMedia if anyone is interested.

Soubhiville I started the novel yesterday and it‘s interesting... 5y
Hooked_on_books Interesting concept. Gorgeous cover! 5y
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cleoh
Arms From the Sea | Rich Shapero
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I'd rather live in a world made of water than one made of salt. Mix of dystopian dilemmas and magical realism, interesting mythology, almost cult like. Beautiful writing, amazing cover. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #LitsyAtoZauthors @BookishMarginalia