In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations. So the arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island culture feels like a boon to her. The longer the ethnographers stay, the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued and exoticized.
London
City-of
United-kingdom
Elizabeth-oconnor
Edith-wharton
Isabel-allende
Toni-morrison
Elizabetho-connor
Jana-siciliano
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
bookreporter.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bookreporter.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Barbara-waltersSusan-pageRoy-cohnJana-siciliano