An Ocean Gazes Through Human Glass

Emily Nguyen

Dive into the world an ocean dreams of . . .

Nothing of the ocean, its tides, or its depths, should desire happiness, yet water flows to the tune of thoughtfulness. Dreaming of its own humanity, inhabiting Venner an analyst, the ocean explores life in a city where the monotony of a desk job calls like a siren song. The idyll is fractured by those who discover his true nature. Magical forces seek to control the ocean, its impossible forces, as Venner struggles to survive and to keep out of monstrous hands--his sense of self.

An Ocean Gazes Through Human Glass is a lyrical, magical journey. It explores all humans’ conflicting desires to both accept their world and consume it. With prose as beautiful as a dream and characters that defy imagination, you’ll find yourself immersed in a world of both treachery and possibility.

Emily Nguyen explores wonder in her debut novel An Ocean Gazes Through Human Glass and in her daily vocation. She is a rocket engineer in southern California who makes dreams fly both in real life and on the page.

Born and raised in southern California where the concept of seasons is just mere legend, I am an aerospace engineer with a particular hobby that invites pen to page and makes an ocean infinite. Building rocket parts and seeing them fly impresses the idea that impossibility can be tamed. Not that all impossibility can, but the matter isn’t truly impervious. Due diligence and a dream can make wonders and now the hobby has come into something a bit more permanent. Beyond the stars, beneath the deep blue sea, within the roiling consciousness of a good beer with friends on a lazy Saturday evening overlooking the backyard and just looking abroad, is wonder. Of this wonder I write about and enjoy exploring to the strangest of ends, having some fun along the way.