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Creatures
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Published:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compaby, 2020.
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
Large print edition.
Physical Desc:
299 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Status:
MCPLD Central Large Print
Large Print Fiction VAN METE Crissy
Description

""Inventive and surprising . . . A punch to the heart. It's one of the best novels I've read this year." --Kristen Arnett, bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, on the shore of Winter Island, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, the narrative flows back and forth through time as Evie reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California. Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of weed, Winter Wonderland. Although her father raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to parent herself. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief--and the ways in which our childhoods can threaten our ability to love if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. Lyrical, darkly funny, and ultimately cathartic, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides"--

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Large Print Fiction VAN METE Crissy
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Street Date:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781432878757, 1432878751

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Description
""Inventive and surprising . . . A punch to the heart. It's one of the best novels I've read this year." --Kristen Arnett, bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, on the shore of Winter Island, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, the narrative flows back and forth through time as Evie reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California. Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of weed, Winter Wonderland. Although her father raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to parent herself. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief--and the ways in which our childhoods can threaten our ability to love if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. Lyrical, darkly funny, and ultimately cathartic, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Van Meter, C. (2020). Creatures. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compaby.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Van Meter, Crissy. 2020. Creatures. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compaby.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Van Meter, Crissy, Creatures. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compaby, 2020.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Van Meter, Crissy. Creatures. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compaby, 2020.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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