false 2598240 3 <B>A powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community.</B><BR><BR>Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.<BR><BR>Linda Hogan, called our most provocative Native American writer, with "her unparalleled gifts for truth and magic" (Barbara Kingsolver), has written a compassionate novel about the beauty of the natural world and the painful moral choices humans make in it. With a keen sense of the environment, spirituality, and the trauma of war, <I>People of the Whale</I> is a powerful novel for our times. 2621277 11 8 2008 People of the Whale: A Novel total:94|5:35|4:33|3:17|2:7|1:2| 94 374 181 36 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 5 0 false Thu Feb 05 14:10:51 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 14:11:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 14:56:08 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:13:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 09:09:36 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 17:11:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Dec 24 06:01:35 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 10:42:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 5 0 false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 15:59:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 15:50:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 00:01:51 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 16:45:13 -0700 2008 My review from the paper.


Witness the Broken Ocean
And, with Linda Hogan, imagine it healing
by Suzi Steffen

PEOPLE OF THE WHALE, fiction by Linda Hogan. W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Hardcover, $24.95.

Linda Hogan likes to anchor her novels firm...more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 5 0 false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:02:24 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:05:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2598240 0393064573 9780393064575 91 36 3.98 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2598240.People_of_the_Whale_A_Novel 5 0 false Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 19:34:49 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 19:48:05 -0800 2009 A man is broken by going to war in Vietnam.
His son is broken when a whale is killed.
His wife is broken when her son dies.
His daughter is not broken against all odds.
Three women dance on a beach.
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