Creatures: A Novel

Written by Crissy Van Meter

Narrated by Piper Goodeve

On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, 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, Evie remembers and 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 marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Although he 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 ashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief-and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Jan 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781684576487

Reviews for Creatures

[Jan · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

So much anguish about relationships. Page after page of pain. The discord between the husband and wife went on and on and on with no change or resolution. Maybe there was finally something but I could not finish it.

[West Jenny · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Coming of age and ok. Not the best book I’ve read.