“Shark Heart” succeeds because it doesn’t function solely on the level of metaphor. In the world of the book, human-to-animal mutations are a lamentable but very real fate, like metastatic ...

Author Emily Habeck will have her first novel, "Shark Heart," released on Aug. 8. She hails from Ardmore, Okla., and has a bachelor of fine arts degree in theater from SMU’s Meadows School of ...