People of the Whale: A Novel

People of the Whale: A Novel
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By:"Linda Hogan"
"Fiction"
Published on 2010-10-15 by W. W. Norton & Company

“To the women who entered the room of a private meeting,” said Dwight, heavy \u003cbr\u003e\nnow and gray. “According to Robert's Rules of Order, you are out of order.” Wilma \u003cbr\u003e\nlaughed at him. “Who is this \u003cb\u003eRobert\u003c/b\u003e?” \u003cb\u003eDwight\u003c/b\u003e was now the tribal chairman, his ...

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“Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding. . . . [A] hauntingly beautiful novel of the hidden dimensions of life.” —Booklist, starred review 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.

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