Otter Music

Beautifully lucid writing that captures the human ability to care. In Karen Joy Fowler's capable hands, hope for the future is alive and well -- Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
I don't want to live in a world without Karen Joy Fowler's books. We are all better for her wry wisdom, for her bone deep love for all of us fallible souls doing our best on this planet we share, even if we are not always doing our best for the planet. I laughed out loud reading this book. I also cried. Her work is inimitable. She and Otter Music are absolute treasures -- Attica Locke
This is not a book about otters; it's a book about hope amid despair, about family despite loss, about the triumph of connection over estrangement and paralysis. If you are feeling desperate or lonely in today's broken world, this beautiful and sensitive book will help you remember your power to heal and protect our families, our friends, and our planet -- Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
Effervescent and smart, Otter Music trips along with pace, dealing with immense issues with an accessible, endearing and humorous touch. I loved the way such heartbreaking environmental concern has been weaved in so cleverly with the story of yet another one of the author's fabulously zesty and eccentric characters. Lainey is stunningly intelligent and beautifully naïve. Her struggles to reconcile herself to her father's abrupt departure work in elegant counterpoint to her realisation that world as she knows it is changing forever -- Roisin Maguire, author of Night Swimmers
Lainey Miller is desperate to save the environment and the world. If only she realized that what she's really trying to save is herself. Funny, lovely, and prescient, Otter Music is the story of two beautiful endangered species; otters and people who care about the future -- John Kenney, author of I See You’ve Called in Dead
Tender and beautiful, Otter Music is a perfectly crafted and deeply moving novel for our times - it offers no easy answers, and is all the more powerful for its realism, and its emphasis on how we can better care for our own small patch of this world -- Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers
Praise for Karen Joy Fowler * : *
No one writes like Karen Joy Fowler -- Ruth Ozeki
A very fine novelist indeed * TLS *
Karen Joy Fowler's novels are wildly inventive and deservedly popular * Daily Mail *
An original and unexpectedly voiced novelist * The New York Times *
What a range Karen Joy Fowler has -- Cathy Rentzenbrink
Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being -- Khaled Hosseini
Karen Joy Fowler tells the story of how one animal - the animal of man - can simultaneously destroy and expand our notion of what is possible -- Alice Sebold