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Release Year: 2020

ISBN: 9781643750835

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Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

ISBN-10

1643750836

ISBN-13

9781643750835

eBay Product ID (ePID)

18038554891

Product Key Features

Book Title

Creatures : a Novel

Number of Pages

272 Pages

Language

English

Publication Year

2020

Topic

Family Life, Coming of Age, Literary

Genre

Fiction

Author

Crissy Van Meter

Format

Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height

0.7 in

Item Weight

8.5 Oz

Item Length

8.3 in

Item Width

5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience

Trade

LCCN

2021-278148

Reviews

"Some of the most heartbreaking moments in this novel are the most simply told, and there are scenes of beauty and magic and dry humor amid the chaos . . . A quietly captivating debut . " -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Crissy Van Meter balances fracture and fusion and navigates Evangeline''s story with exquisite, racking grace . . . Filled with the ''pressure of missing things, the leaving of things,'' and ''the constant foreboding of implosion,'' Crissy Van Meter''s bold debut novel is stamped with a signature, polymetric tension all its own." -- Foreword Reviews , starred review "Crissy Van Meter''s Creatures is a lyrical, literary debut that you''ll want on your TBR when it comes to stores next winter." -- Bustle "Van Meter''s wonderfully un-ordinary debut is rather like the ocean itself: layered, deep, and happening all at once . . . This is a moving, graceful novel of how people change and are changed by natures within and without." -- Booklist "Tender and atmospheric . . . Van Meter expertly and effortlessly brings to life at once her father''s substance abuse and dependence, his doting love for his daughter and loyalty to her absent mother, and his inability to be what Evie needs. His deep mark on Evie''s life, and her feelings toward him, are the book''s beating heart . . . this promising debut sneaks up on the reader, packing a devastating emotional punch." -- Publishers Weekly " Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It''s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body, smell the sea life, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families, yes, but it''s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It''s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It''s one of the best novels I''ve read this year." --Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things "Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness, sweetness, pain, history, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current, in Creatures . On Winter Island, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection, fracture, deprivation, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland, and as isolating. Like water, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous, jewel-tone debut." --Sarah Gerard, author of Sunshine State "At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart, Van Meter explores alcoholism, absence, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths." -- Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces "Wiry, rhythmic, and wrenchingly beautiful, Creatures plumbs the sea-struck heart of a family fractured by longing and grief." -- Leni Zumas, bestselling author of Red Clocks " Creatures is a love story like none other--a synesthetic whale song that submerges you deep inside the exhilaration and exhaustion of love. Father love. Mother love. And most of all, the love of place." -- Mesha Maren, author of Sugar Run "Crissy Van Meter has written a tale of hard-won family forgiveness that doubles, somehow, as a sly parable about climate change, about the eggshell fragility of the island-home we take for granted. Brava." --Jonathan Dee, author of The Locals, A Most-Anticipated Book of January 2020 Bustle A January 2020 Must-Read Entertainment Weekly "An alluring, atmospheric debut." -- People "A lush and complex .. . . gemlike novel." -- The Los Angeles Times "Some of the most heartbreaking moments in this novel are the most simply told, and there are scenes of beauty and magic and dry humor amid the chaos . . . A quietly captivating debut . " -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Crissy Van Meter balances fracture and fusion and navigates Evangeline''s story with exquisite, racking grace . . . Filled with the ''pressure of missing things, the leaving of things,'' and ''the constant foreboding of implosion,'' Crissy Van Meter''s bold debut novel is stamped with a signature, polymetric tension all its own." -- Foreword Reviews , starred review "Crissy Van Meter''s Creatures is a lyrical, literary debut that you''ll want on your TBR when it comes to stores next winter." -- Bustle "Van Meter''s wonderfully un-ordinary debut is rather like the ocean itself: layered, deep, and happening all at once . . . This is a moving, graceful novel of how people change and are changed by natures within and without." -- Booklist "Tender and atmospheric . . . Van Meter expertly and effortlessly brings to life at once her father''s substance abuse and dependence, his doting love for his daughter and loyalty to her absent mother, and his inability to be what Evie needs. His deep mark on Evie''s life, and her feelings toward him, are the book''s beating heart . . . this promising debut sneaks up on the reader, packing a devastating emotional punch." -- Publishers Weekly " Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from its pages. It''s so physically present you can feel the waves hit your body, smell the sea life, hear the roar of the ocean as your hair whips around your face in the breeze. Crissy Van Meter has written a book about the complexities of love and families, yes, but it''s also a careful look at intimacy through the lens of a person learning and relearning how to love the people who continually let us down. It''s inventive and surprising. The text is tactile; a punch to the heart. It''s one of the best novels I''ve read this year." --Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things "Crissy Van Meter pulls us into depths of loneliness, sweetness, pain, history, and pulsing vulnerability in prose swift and clear as an ocean current, in Creatures . On Winter Island, time and landscape ache with memory; need spills over in subtle moments of intense connection, fracture, deprivation, and wound; unconditional love may be a concept as unreachable as the mainland, and as isolating. Like water, loss and longing fill the space between each prism of a word in this gorgeous, jewel-tone debut." --Sarah Gerard, author of Sunshine State "At the intersection of the natural world and the human heart, Van Meter explores alcoholism, absence, daughterly loyalties and longing in this slim and beautiful tale that contains a whole aqueous universe in its depths." -- Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces "Wiry, rhythmic, and wrenchingly beautiful, Creatures plumbs the sea-struck heart of a family fractured by longing and grief." -- Leni Zumas, bestselling author of Red Clocks " Creatures is a love story like none other--a synesthetic whale song that submerges you deep inside the exhilaration and exhaustion of love. Father love. Mother love. And most of all, the love of place." -- Mesha Maren, author of Sugar Run "Crissy Van Meter has written a tale of hard-won family forgiveness that doubles, somehow, as a sly parable about climate change, about the eggshell fragility of the island-home we take for granted. Brava." --Jonathan Dee, author of The Locals

Dewey Edition

Dewey Decimal

813/.6

Synopsis

" A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle "An alluring, atmospheric debut." -- People A Belletrist Book Club Pick A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Entertainment Weekly - The Millions - Bustle A Best Book of the Year: NPR's Book Concierge On the eve of Evangeline's wedding on Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, the narrative flows back and forth through time as Evie reckons with her complicated upbringing--a weed-dealing, charming but neglectful father, a wild-child best friend--in this lush land off the coast of Southern California. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of family and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief--and exerts a pull as strong as the tides., "[A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight." -- San Francisco Chronicle "An alluring, atmospheric debut." -- People A Belletrist Book Club Pick A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Entertainment Weekly * The Millions * Bustle A Best Book of the Year: NPR's Book Concierge On the eve of Evangeline's wedding on Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, the narrative flows back and forth through time as Evie reckons with her complicated upbringing--a weed-dealing, charming but neglectful father, a wild-child best friend--in this lush land off the coast of Southern California. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of family and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief--and exerts a pull as strong as the tides., "Inventive and surprising . . . A punch to the heart. It's one of the best novels I've read this year." --Kristen Arnett, bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, on the shore of Winter Island, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, the narrative flows back and forth through time as Evie reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California. Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of weed, Winter Wonderland. Although her father raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to parent herself. With wit, love, and bracing flashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief--and the ways in which our childhoods can threaten our ability to love if we are not brave enough to conquer the past. Lyrical, darkly funny, and ultimately cathartic, Creatures exerts a pull as strong as the tides.

LC Classification Number

PS3622.A5854948C74

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