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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I received this ARC free through NetGalley in exchange for my review. This one didn’t work for me, and I struggled to finish it. The story was very disjointed and the plot did not make sense to me overall. I wasn’t sure if this was a story about a man’s struggles with PTSD or his daughter’s return home. The magical realism elements didn’t seem central to the story but only thrown in for effect. Characters were somewhat underdeveloped. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The current timeline begins with a whale deliberately beaching itself outside the small town where Wayne now runs a diner. His 20-something daughter Julie is concerned about him and is visiting to see what help he might need to get his life back on track. At the same time, the now-grown daughter of the park ranger shows up and expects to stay at Wayne's home also.
The book starts out sounding plausible, but keeps getting more and more bizarre. The unacknowledged 'elephant in the room' is Wayne's suicidal bent, and we see that Julie has some behaviors that could use attention also.
The author tries to put this on a philosophical level by asserting that animals are committing suicide because the world is so messed up, and perhaps we are all responding to the same crisis in the world. But that small part of the book doesn't work too well for me. ( )