num_pages: 296
description: From the author of the #1 international bestseller and Indie Next Pick The History of Bees a captivating new standalone novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.In 2019 seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in only a sailboat. She is haunted by the loss of the love of her life and is driven by a singular and all-consuming mission to make it back to him.In 2041 David flees with his young daughter Lou from a war-torn Southern Europe plagued by drought. They have been separated from their rest of their family and are on a desperate search to reunite with them once again when they find Signe's abandoned sailboat in a parched French garden miles away from the nearest shore.As David and Lou discover personal effects from Signe's travels their journey of survival and hope weaves together with Signe's forming a heartbreaking inspiring story about the power of nature and the human spirit in this second novel from the author of the spectacular and deeply moving (New York Times bestselling author Lisa See) The History of Bees.
language: English
title: The End of the Ocean
publisher: HarperVia