Description
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.
Author: Linda Hogan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.56w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780393335347
ISBN10: 0393335348
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Indigenous
- Fiction | Literary