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Loading... Raven Stole the Moon: A Novel (edition 2010)by Garth Stein
Work InformationRaven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Intriguing. Jenna, two years after her son's drowning, returns to Alaska not sure what she's seeking. She returns to her grandmother's house & interacts with the Tlingit, sifting through the beliefs of her ancestors, including the kushtaka - the shape shifting otter. I particularly liked the belief that nothing is good vs evil...it just is ( ) Garth Stein published Raven Stole the Moon more than a decade before The Art of Racing in the Rain became a New York Times Bestseller. The jacket summary intrigued me: a Seattle woman grieving the loss of her five-year-old son returns to her ancestral hometown in Alaska where she is confronted by Tlingit spirits. I wanted to enjoy Raven Stole the Moon more than I did. I found that I could not relate to main character Jenna as much as I related to the dog narrator of The Art of Racing in the Rain. I suspect this is due to a combination of Stein’s inexperience as novelist at the time and the fact that he’s a man. Sometimes male writers have trouble realistically creating female characters (and vice versa, I’m sure.) In some ways, the plot was predictable and both Jenna and her husband’s choices irritated me. The supernatural aspects to the story didn’t quite work for me either. This is an early book of Stein's (1998) that was re released after the phenomenal success of The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008). I loved racing, but this book is disjointed, unfocused, and just awful. It started out okay, but quickly got murky. This attests how ten years makes a big difference in a writer's skill. no reviews | add a review
Jenna Rosen returns to a remote Alaskan town to discover that her son's death is shrouded in legend. Armed with only her maternal instincts Jenna's quest for the truth is about to lead her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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