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River Meets the Sea - A Novel
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River Meets the Sea - A Novel
From House of Anansi Press Inc
Current price: $24.99
Bolen Books
River Meets the Sea - A Novel
From House of Anansi Press Inc
Current price: $24.99
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A spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins.
An enthralling nautical epic,
River Meets the Sea
traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s.
A natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed "alley mutt" without a birth certificate who searches for his mother everywhere - most powerfully, he hears her voice in the surging Stó:lo River. Born in the middle of the ocean on a merchant ship departing Sri Lanka, Chandra is a Tamil boy with "skin like a charred eggplant" who finds his haven from the pressure to assimilate by swimming and surfing in the Salish Sea.
Moving gracefully between these parallel stories like a wave, the novel traces the seemingly separate lives of these sensitive young men and their everlasting connections to water. When their troubled paths inevitably cross, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world.
- Authors : Rachael Moorthy
- Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition:
- Pages: 400
- Height: 8
- Width: 5.25
- Weight: 0.98
- Imprint: House of Anansi Press
- Isbn: 9781487011xxx
- Release Date : 2023-05-30