Miami, July.
Olivia Taylor has always known exactly who she is. Twenty-five years old, born and raised in Miami, she moves through her city the way people move through places they love - with full attention, with the confidence of deep familiarity. She has her work, her friends, her apartment in Little Haiti with four succulents she's named after women painters. She has a life that fits.Then she meets Ivy Anderson.
Ivy is a marine biologist who spends her days underwater, coaxing coral back to life on dying reefs in the Florida Keys. She is direct, patient, and honest in a way that unsettles people who aren't used to it. On the day they meet, she tells Olivia something about herself with the calm of someone who stopped apologizing for their own truth a long time ago...