Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Sa…
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium - keeping busy has helped her cope for over thirty years, ever since her son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors - …
Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of time, times when we must retreat to care and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully show us how to come through these times with the wisdom of knowing that, like the seasons, our winters and summers are the ebb and flow of life.