Marine heatwave data courtesy of NOAA Coral Reef Watch, Marine Heatwave Tracker and Dr Robert Smith, University of Otago, New Zealand In 30 years of fishing, and writing for the local fishing magazine, Langlands had never seen anything like it. Locals posted videos of them surging over the sandbanks or laid out in their hundreds on the sand of toddlers striding through the shallows to yank one out by the tail.
Entire schools died flapping in the Otago bays, their scales a dark, briney silver – an offshore fish, meant for deeper, colder waters. The fish had been beaching for months now – masses of them, through April, May, June, July. Even as he thought ahead to the evening meal, though, Langlands felt a pang of worry. Later, he would fillet them, and cook the firm white flesh with spices for a curry. He had long been an active fisher on the coastlines of New Zealand’s South Island, and knew they were ray’s bream: good eating. Peter Langlands waded in, grabbing live fish one by one. Occasionally a fish would raise a single fin, worrying the water’s edge. In shallow pools created by the eddying tide, they lay piled on their sides. Some floated belly up, stunned and dying. In the shallows of Aramoana, fish roiled the surface of the bay, flickering through the water, reflecting the winter sunlight. It terrifies her-they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds-and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down.Words by Tess McClure, data vizualisation by Andy Ball He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother.īut then she meets Ocean James. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!įrom the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.
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