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A beautiful debut established throughout the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium - and the last days and nights of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. In 1940, 15-year-old Margot Fiske comes on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric businessperson father. Margot has been her father's apprentice all over the world, but a major accident in Monterey's tide swimming pools drives them aside and plunges her headfirst into the mayhem of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Steinbeck is covering out from his burgeoning popularity at the raucous lab of Ed Ricketts, the biologist known as Doc in Cannery Row. Ricketts, a charismatic bohemian, quickly becomes the thing of Margot's fascination. Despite Steinbeck's protests and her father's misgivings, she wrangles a job as Ricketts' sketch musician and begins sketching the peculiar and wonderful sea animals he pulls from the waters of the bay. Unbeknownst to Margot, her father is also working with Ricketts. He's soliciting the biologist's advice on his most ambitious and controversial project thus far: the change of the Row's major cannery into an aquarium. When Margot begins an affair with Ricketts, she places in action a string of situations that will affect not just each of them but the future of Monterey as well. Alternating between recent and present, Monterey Bay explores histories both imagined and actual to build an unforgettable family portrait of a fantastic woman, a world-famous aquarium, and the favorite town they both call home.
