Aransas

Stephen Harrigan. Texas Monthly Press, $8.95 (259pp) ISBN 978-0-87719-057-8

Jeff Dowling goes home to Aransas, Tex., a small Gulf Coast fishing town, to help train a pair of porpoises that are supposed to become tourist attractions. He soon comes to love the porpoises as well as the woman who wants to release the pair to the wilds. ""A remarkable first novel,'' PW wrote. (September)

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