![Shell collector. Anthony Doerr. 2016.](http://browsebooks.com.au/cdn/shop/products/image_604d7efd-ee74-4ad8-a0e3-2e0932b8d337_{width}x.jpg?v=1664602804)
A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal's mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales.