โ Van Meter, Crissy;
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
๐ en-US
โ 119 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Creatures
โ Scribed by Crissy Van Meter
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
" Inventive and surprising . . . A punch to the heart. It's one of the best novels I've read this year." --Kristen Arnett, bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, on the shore of Winter Island, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, the narrative flows back and forth through time as Evie reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California.
Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of weed, Winter Wonderland. Although her father raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to...
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