Six year old Hushpuppy and her single father, Wink, have a unique relationship and existence. They live in a small community coined The Bathtub located in the Mississippi River delta, The Bathtub which has been physically isolated from the rest of the world ever since the building of the levee upstream. Wink and the other adults in The Bathtub have a protective attitude toward their community. Everyone in The Bathtub knows that the community is under threat of being submerged if a big storm hits or with climate change melting the ice caps resulting in a rising sea level, but they refuse to leave regardless. Hushpuppy and Wink live on a sprawling and seemingly disorganized, rundown and overgrown piece of property off of which they raise animals for food. Father and daughter live in separate raised structures on the property. Despite loving each other, Hushpuppy and Wink have a relationship that is often punctuated by arguments and altercations, sometimes physical. Hushpuppy has a combination of outlooks on life. Some of it is highly fantasized, such as the way she views her absent biological mother solely from the stories told to her by Wink, Hushpuppy who has no remembrance of her directly, or her thoughts of aurochs being released from the melting icecaps – as told to her and the other children by their teacher, holistically minded Miss Bathsheba – only eventually to invade their community. And some of it is wise beyond her years, such as her belief that she is just a small cog in the universe, within which all those small cogs are somehow interrelated. When a big storm does hit the region, Wink, Hushpuppy and the other residents of The Bathtub who decide to stay have to figure out how to survive. What does happen is affected by a secret Wink is keeping from his daughter, something she, with her eyes somewhat wide open, may be able to see but not fully comprehend.
—Huggo
参考翻译：
六岁的Hushuppy和她的单身父亲Wink有着独特的关系和存在。他们住在密西西比河三角洲一个由浴缸创造的小社区里。自从上游修建堤坝以来，这个浴缸一直与世界其他地方隔绝。Wink和浴缸里的其他成年人对他们的社区持保护态度。浴缸里的每个人都知道，如果大风暴来袭或气候变化融化冰盖导致海平面上升，社区将面临被淹没的威胁，但他们无论如何都拒绝离开。Hushuppy和Wink住在一片杂乱无章、破败不堪、杂草丛生的土地上，他们用这块土地饲养动物作为食物。父亲和女儿住在该房产上独立的凸起结构中。尽管彼此相爱，但Hushuppy和Wink之间的关系经常被争吵和争吵打断，有时是身体上的。Hushuppy有多种人生观。其中一些是高度幻想的，比如她仅仅从Wink、Hushuppy给她的故事中看待她缺席的亲生母亲，Hushuppy对她没有直接的记忆，或者她的想法是极光从融化的冰盖中释放出来——正如他们的老师、心地善良的芭丝谢芭小姐告诉她和其他孩子的那样——最终入侵了他们的社区。其中一些是超越她年龄的智慧，比如她相信她只是宇宙中的一个小齿轮，在宇宙中所有这些小齿轮都以某种方式相互关联。当一场大风暴袭击该地区时，Wink、Hushuppy和浴缸里决定留下来的其他居民必须考虑如何生存。发生的事情受到了一个秘密的眨眼的影响，这个眨眼是他女儿看不见的，她睁大了眼睛，也许能看到，但不能完全理解。-雨果
重点词汇释义：
located in位于; 坐落于
ever since自从;打…以后一直
attitude toward对…的态度; 意见; 对于···的态度
climate change气候变化
ice caps冰冠; ice cap的复数
sea level海平面
