Arms from the Sea Rich SHAPERO Summary Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm - blue, watery, and wholly alien. He's rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the oceanic world they call "heaven". A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur and mysterious purpose. Lyle is horrified at first but soon finds himself falling for the Polyp, and the potent and bizarre creative potential he represents. Whimsical and outlandish but also timely and dead serious, Arms from the Sea navigates imagined realms of possibility, pointing to what it might mean to redeem a desolate world. - Jacket flap. Highlights By Rich SHAPERO Details ISBN: 9780971880177 Author: Rich SHAPERO Format: Hardcover Language: English Publication date: 3 February 2026 Condition: New About the author Rich SHAPERO · Publisher: Rich Shapero More about this book Reviews Escape with a disaffected young sculptor from a desert dystopia to “heaven,” a blue ocean realm ruled by a perverse, tentacled god with a mysterious purpose.
