Almost immediately upon Julie Bird's return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down. Julie's Gulf War vet father, Marty, has been on the losing side of a battle with PTSD for too long. A day of boating takes a dramatic turn when a majestic blue whale beaches itself and dies. A blond stranger sets up camp oceanside: she's an agitator, musician-impersonator, and armchair philosopher named Jennie Lee Lewis - and Julie discovers she's connected to her father's mysterious trip to New Mexico 25 years earlier. As the blue whale decays on the beach, more wildlife turns up dead - apparently by suicide - echoing Marty's deepest desire. But Julie isn't ready for a world without her father. A stunning exploration of love and grief, Land Mammals and Sea Creatures is magic realism on the seaside, a novel about living life to the fullest and coming to your own terms with its end.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- A Misfit book Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781770414143 9781773051833
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.N42
- LCCN Item number
- L36 2018eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (280 pages)
- Published in
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238716 (OCoLC)1035519172 (CaOOCEL)479690
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- PART I: Arrival 5
- One: Blue Whale 6
- Two: Salmon Shark 17
- Three: Cat 26
- Four: 1992 31
- Five: Elephant 47
- Six: Raccoons 57
- Seven: 1992 64
- Eight: Camouflaging Cuttlefish 77
- PART II: The Whale Has Exploded 90
- Nine: Arctic Hare 92
- Ten: 1992 99
- Eleven: Sole 113
- Twelve: Skunk 127
- Thirteen: 1992 138
- Fourteen: Coyote 154
- Fifteen: Pallid Bat 164
- Sixteen: The Moose 171
- Seventeen: Opossum 183
- Eighteen: Rockfish 197
- Nineteen: Mice 210
- PART III: Three Days Missing 224
- Twenty: Hyena, Jackal 226
- Twenty-one: Halibut 233
- Twenty-two: Dog Bones 240
- Twenty-three: Caribou 252
- Twenty-four: Humans 279
- Acknowledgements 282
- About the Author 284
- Copyright 285
