“I read The Shell Collector last summer— the perfect season to enjoy this rich, first collection by Anthony Doerr. The stories have a strong sense of place, weaving between the balmy jungles and reefs of Africa to the brisk winters of Montana and the coast of Maine. The experience of reading Doerr’s stories leaves the reader on the brink of sensory overwhelm: enormous hearts pulled from dead sperm whales; the motions of a deaf girl’s hands in a dark forest; paralyzing venom in icy ocean water; a woman racing a truck up a dusty mountain path; the last visions of a dying doe; biting into lush, juicy melons. Whimsical and hauntingly beautiful, it will stick with you.”
Face Out
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
July 1, 2013
—Katherine from Third Place Books Revenna, July Staff Pick
The Shell Collector is backlist worth revisiting. You can get your copy at Third Place Books or your local indie bookstore.