Monkey beach

by

Paperback, 374 pages

English language

Published Oct. 5, 2011 by Vintage Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-676-97322-8
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ASIN:
0676973221
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“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” –Thomas King

Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, Monkey Beach is a spellbinding voyage into the long, cool shadows of B.C.’s Coast Mountains, blending teen culture, Haisla lore, nature spirits and human tenderness into a multi-layered story of loss and redemption.

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reviewed Monkey beach by Eden Robinson

Beautiful atmosphere, incredible characters, very good at exploring themes.

I've mostly said everything about my thoughts in my other comment, but overall, this book is stupendously written, and my gripes against it are probably subjective. There were some supernatural elements I wish could've been explored in a little more detail. Highly recommend this, but only if you're doing okay mental-health wise and space it out. Don't binge it like I did—it gets brutal and tragic at times.

Subjects

  • Death
  • Brothers
  • Haisla Indians
  • Fiction
  • Young women
  • Indian women
  • Fiction, sagas
  • British columbia, fiction
  • Indians of north america, fiction
  • Brothers and sisters, fiction
  • Supernatural Fiction
  • Indigenous Fiction