The Pod

"The Pod" is a new novel by Lalin Poll about courage, sacrifice, and the mysterious underwater world that confronts human cruelty and ignorance every day. Ea has always felt like an outcast among dolphins. Due to hearing impairment, she cannot master the circling ritual that unites her pod. When a tragedy strikes the tribe, Ea feels guilty and makes the difficult decision to leave her tribe. Alone in the ocean depths, she faces many dangers: from frightening predators to strange objects drifting in the water. But when she finally reconciles with her loneliness, a chance encounter with a pod of bottlenose dolphins divides her life into before and after.