After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have left America an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious and feisty eight-year-old daughter, Pearl, embark on a perilous voyage into the icy northern seas to rescue Myra's missing daughter, now thirteen. But secrets, lust, and betrayals threaten to capsize their dream.
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