Experience love and loss in this enchanting sea mystery from Natalie Babbitt, The Eyes of the Amaryllis.
When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. For thirty-years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. But, someone else is waiting, too, and watching her, a man called Seward. Into this haunted situation comes Jenny, the widow's granddaughter. The three of them, Gran, Jenny, and Seward, are drawn into a kind of deadly game with one another and with the sea, a game that only the sea knows how to win.
"The plot is simple but so well written and carefully constructed that its familiar elements--an estranged mother and son, an undying love--undergo a sea-change, too. And, for all its apparent simplicity, the images evoked are deep and complex."
School Library Journal, Starred Review
"Having read this book, one feels changed, haunted for life."
Minneapolis Tribune
"The language is as exotic as an underwater treasure trove."
