Jay Gardiner is seventeen and diving alone off the California coast to recover his father’s remains — the father was a legendary diver who walked into the ocean to die of cancer, and the two of them had said unforgivable things to each other. Then a sperm whale takes him, and he is inside it with about an hour of air. That’s the book: A boy in the dark in a stomach, doing the math on his tank, remembering everything, with the biology worked out in exact and horrifying detail. Kraus researched the anatomy hard enough that the improbability stops mattering.
Whalefall