The Ocean of Helena Lee(2015)
Twelve-year-old Helena Lee sleeps in the sandy closet of a one room apartment in an unkempt corner of California's Venice Beach. Her father, charismatic surfrat Mickey, spurs her journey as an aspiring writer.
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