River Meets the Sea
Author | : Rachael Moorthy |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2023-05-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781487011437 |
ISBN-13 | : 1487011431 |
Rating | : 4/5 (431 Downloads) |
Download or read book River Meets the Sea written by Rachael Moorthy and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins. An enthralling nautical epic, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s. A natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed “alley mutt” without a birth certificate who searches for his mother everywhere — most powerfully, he hears her voice in the surging Stó:lō River. Born in the middle of the ocean on a merchant ship departing Sri Lanka, Chandra is a Tamil boy with “skin like a charred eggplant” who finds his haven from the pressure to assimilate by swimming and surfing in the Salish Sea. Moving gracefully between these parallel stories like a wave, the novel traces the seemingly separate lives of these sensitive young men and their everlasting connections to water. When their troubled paths inevitably cross, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world.