320 Pages I Paperback

Based on the true story of an infamous 1960s experiment,The Dolphin Houseis a meditation on what makes us truly human.

1965: outside a small house on the coast of St. Thomas, four dolphins are circling in a pool. This is where Cora, newly arrived on the island, finds them by accident, as though theyve been waiting for her. She wont discover the motives of the scientists working in the house until later, but by then her apparent connection with the animalsaided by her own deafnesshas given her every reason to stay.

The house is a research facility led by the obsessive Dr. Blum, a man aiming to teach the dolphins human language. To stave off some of Blums more insidious experimentations, Cora suggests they build a flooded apartment where she can live and speak with the youngest dolphin around the clock.

The radical research forges ahead, but Blum has other ideas and Coras instincts clash with the male-dominated world of science in the sixties. As a terrible scandal threatens to engulf the experiment, Coras determination to save the dolphins becomes a battle to save herself.