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"I live by the sea. / I know all its secrets." A girl named Sophia takes readers on an underwater tour, presenting a place where "tentacles, antennae and teeth disappear into darkness...and an abyss becomes a bottomless pit of possibilities." It's not just the text that's poetic--so is the swirling and swarming mixed-media art, which barely nods at conventional oceanic blues.