Shark Heart: A Love Story

A 2023 MMD Summer Reading Guide selection. Lewis and Wren are newly married and deeply in love when Lewis first notices something odd: the bridge of his nose is no longer bone but soft cartilage. Soon enough he receives an ominous diagnosis. He possesses a genetic mutation that means, before their first year of marriage is over, he will (mostly) retain his consciousness and memories while transforming into a great white shark. From this preposterous premis,e debut novelist Habeck wrests a wholly unique and utterly absorbing story of marriage, motherhood, art, and unfulfilled dreams, that grapples with the question of how we create meaning in spite of and out of great tragedy. I devoured this weird and wild debut. For fans of Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch and Julia Fine’s The Upstairs House.