Sunday, May 3, 2009

Sea as Mirror as Tess Mirror

It is the not too distant future, and in a specially constructed marina off the US coast, a young woman works to communicate with a killer whale. Then one day the impossible happens: the whale speaks.

What could cause a whale to voluntarily surrender itself into captivity? What does it sense so urgently that makes it reach out to the 'other'? As the human world falls victim to terrorist nuclear attacks and everything familiar comes under threat, ancient kinships between the land and the sea re-emerge. Could there be new ways for our two species to co-exist? Even a new future?

I enjoyed the Land Chapters but not so much the newspaper articles and some of the Sea chapters. I really enjoyed the ending. The idea of whales and people living together was nice.

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