Whalefall: A Novel Book cover type:Paperback Shenk offers sharp pen portraits

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Whalefall: A Novel Book cover type:Paperback Shenk offers sharp pen portraitsIn 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the