Creatures : a novel / Crissy Van Meter.
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TextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 241 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616208592
- 1616208597
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Main Library | Fiction | Van Mete Crissy | Available | 33111009585874 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"An alluring, atmospheric debut." -- People
A Belletrist Book Club Pick
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Entertainment Weekly * The Millions * Bustle
A Best Book of the Year: NPR's Book Concierge
On the eve of Evangeline's wedding on Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, 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--a weed-dealing, charming but neglectful father, a wild-child best friend--in this lush land off the coast of Southern California.
With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of family and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief--and exerts a pull as strong as the tides.
"Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up out of the blue."--Provided by publisher.