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People of the Whale

Linda Hogan
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  1. More praise for People of the Whale
  2. PEOPLE of the WHALE
  3. ALSO BY LINDA HOGAN
  4. PEOPLE of the WHALE
  5. LINDA HOGAN
  6. CONTENTS
  7. PROLOGUE
  8. PART ONE
  9. OCTOPUS
  10. DEATHLESS
  11. BODY LIES
  12. THE WIFE OF MARCO POLO
  13. MARCO: THE SON OF THOMAS
  14. RUTH
  15. DARK RIVER: 1988
  16. HUNT
  17. DARK HOUSES
  18. PART TWO
  19. HE BUILDS THE FENCE
  20. THE RAIN PRIEST
  21. AFTER THE RAIN
  22. HE GOES BENEATH
  23. OUT THERE
  24. LIGHT-YEARS
  25. RED FISH: HUMAN
  26. HOME
  27. PART THREE
  28. THE WALL: THE NAMES
  29. RUTH WATCHING
  30. DOA: DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY: ROOMS
  31. THE DAY OF TRANQUILLITY
  32. THE MAN WHO KILLED THE WHALE
  33. STIRRINGS UNDERNEATH
  34. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

More praise for
People of the Whale

“In her remarkable new novel, Hogan…explores themes of love and loss among the A’atsika people of Washington State…. [Her] style is both dream-like and realistic, with a nonlinear narrative that loops back on itself as more and more is revealed.”

—Library Journal

“Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding, Hogan ascends to an even higher plane in this hauntingly beautiful novel of the hidden dimensions of life, and all that is now imperiled.”

—Booklist

“This book brings you deep into the realm of a people who have ancient, complex ties to the natural world…through a compelling and insistent narrative.”

—Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education

“This is a fine story that embraces the worthy subjects of modern American Indians, the Vietnam War and the importance of family.”

—Rocky Mountain News

“In telling a story of the fictional A’atsika, a Native people of the American West Coast who find their mythical origins in the whale and the octopus, Hogan employs just the right touch of spiritualism in this engrossing tale…with a powerful, romantic crescendo.”

—Publishers Weekly

“With her unparalleled gifts for truth and magic, Linda Hogan reinforces my faith in reading, writing, living.”

—Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible

“Hauntingly wise, beautifully written, and fiercely tender, People of the Whale goes between realms of animal and human, between Native and non-Native, between the radiant world as it once was and still might become. This book is a bridge, a revelation, an open heart.”

—Brenda Peterson, author of Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals

“People of the Whale is pure magic—and pure truth. It’s as perfect as a smooth stone.”

—Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig

PEOPLE of the WHALE

ALSO BY LINDA HOGAN

FICTION

Power

Solar Storms

Mean Spirit

NONFICTION

Sightings: The Gray Whale’s Mysterious Journey

The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir

The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

The Stories We Hold Secret

Intimate Nature

POETRY

Rounding the Human Corners

The Book of Medicines

Seeing Through the Sun

Savings

Red Clay

Eclipse

PEOPLE of the WHALE

A Novel

LINDA HOGAN

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W. W. Norton & Company

New York • London

Copyright © 2008 by Linda Hogan

All rights reserved
First published as a Norton 2009

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hogan, Linda.

People of the whale / Linda Hogan.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-0-393-07282-2

1. Indians of North America—Fiction. 2. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Veterans—Fiction. 3. Culture conflict—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.O34726P46 2008

813’.54—dc22

2008025040

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