Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa’s sole reason to live.

Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions…and Elisa can’t keep away.

Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center’s most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day. vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive and involving story lines.' - Booklist It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito-mute her whole life, orphaned as a child-is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. ' phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right.

From visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus comes this haunting, heartbreaking love story. The 2018 Academy Award's Best Picture of the Year and New York Times-bestselling novel, The Shape of Water.

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