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"As every Antarctic traveler knows, once you being to fear the ice, the relationship changes forever."
From the beginning of this novel, you know that there will be a ship that sinks near Antarctica. The narrator, Deb, is an ornithologist specializing in Adélie penguins, who spends several months a year tracing penguin migration, counting numbers of chicks and survivors, etc. In between research tasks she gives tours and talks to tourists who have come to the end of the earth.
Along the way, she f ...more
From the beginning of this novel, you know that there will be a ship that sinks near Antarctica. The narrator, Deb, is an ornithologist specializing in Adélie penguins, who spends several months a year tracing penguin migration, counting numbers of chicks and survivors, etc. In between research tasks she gives tours and talks to tourists who have come to the end of the earth.
Along the way, she f ...more
People go to Antarctica for two reasons; either they’ve run out of places to go, or run out of places to hide.
Deb and Keller have built an unconventional, somewhat fragile romantic relationship around their annual research trips to Antarctica to study penguin populations and habits. But the relationship is what it is, and it’s real for both of them. This summer, despite having made very recent plans together, Deb arrives at their meeting point in Ushuaia, and Keller’s not there. Then, when she e ...more
Deb and Keller have built an unconventional, somewhat fragile romantic relationship around their annual research trips to Antarctica to study penguin populations and habits. But the relationship is what it is, and it’s real for both of them. This summer, despite having made very recent plans together, Deb arrives at their meeting point in Ushuaia, and Keller’s not there. Then, when she e ...more
It’s pegged as an “irresistible love story,” ostensibly referring to the two major characters Deb Gardner and Keller Sullivan who meet on the Antarctic continent. But to me, the irresistible love story was between the characters and their intense magnetic draw to the desolate, dangerous yet captivating glacial vastness that is the southern tip of the earth. Deb is a researcher studying Adelie and emperor penguins and has spent numerous years in Antartica - in some respects it is her refuge, the
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