Winner - Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction

Winner - Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction

Finalist - National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain

Booklist Editors' Choice (History)

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this "cri de coeur about the Gulf's environmental ruin" (New York Times), "Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea" (front page, New York Times Book Review).