Waves of Salt and Spite

“She's afraid of the sea, runs her grandmother's surf school, and her only student wears the whistle she thought was lost.”

Three years after her grandmother Celia died, Abril reopens the family's old surf school with a rejection letter in her pocket, a municipal concession on the verge of seizure and a fear of the water she admits to no one. Her only student, Iván, an outsider who can't even get into a wetsuit, wears around his neck the lifeguard whistle that vanished from the shed the night her grandmother died. And while she tries not to drown him in resentment, Lucas Arenas moves his machines in to take the beach.