She hadn’t meant to become a bivalve mollusk,” Chen writes in her second book, a genre-defying memoir due out Tuesday, June 3. “But it happened. Last fall, after a rib-bruising bike crash caused by ...

"My mother made me become a shellfish collector," says Mari Carmen Vazquez, 57, head of the Lourizan inlet collective of clam collectors. "There was no other future." In times past, the women of ...