Book description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE ā¢ A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologiesānational, individual, and collectiveāthat drive and define us.
On the day of their estranged fatherās wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim theirā¦
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1 author picked The Great Offshore Grounds as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I could recommend this book for the writing, which is remarkableālayered and incisive and beautifulāor 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 secretāand in search of themselvesāVeselka brings readers along on their quest as she slowly reveals the mystery of a dysfunctional family dynamic and the systems that create soā¦
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