Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfictio A National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalis ANew York Times Notable Book of 2017 One of theWashington Post's Best Books of the Year In this "cri de coeur about the Gulf's environmental ruin" New York Times), "Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea" (front page, New York Times Book Review).