The Great Offshore Grounds
Book description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE ⢠A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologiesânational, individual, and collectiveâthat drive and define us.
On the day of their estranged fatherâs wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim theirâŚ
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I could recommend this book for the writing, which is remarkableâlayered and incisive and beautifulâor for the plotting, which is dense and chaotic in all the best ways, even as Veselka displays the patience of a confident master. Or for the multitude of richly drawn, intriguing characters and how they move around the country and one another. As they wander from Alaska to Seattle to New England in search of a family secretâand in search of themselvesâVeselka brings readers along on their quest as she slowly reveals the mystery of a dysfunctional family dynamic and the systems that create soâŚ
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