![]() Jimmy's disappearance triggers Lisa's memories of other lost loved ones - her favorite uncle, Mick, killed in a fishing accident some ten years earlier her aged grandmother Ma-ma-oo, dead in a house fire and a childhood friend who recently committed suicide. Suspense rivets the reader's attention until the very last page. Lisa takes the outboard and travels by water to join them. ![]() Her parents fly out to be nearer the search site. Lisa and her parents, Albert and Gladys, wait by the telephone for news. Jimmy and his boss Josh are missing and feared drowned. As the story opens, the boat Lisa's 18-year-old brother Jimmy is working on is overdue. Set in 1989 and narrated by 19-year-old Lisamarie Michelle Hill from Kitamaat Village, Monkey Beach is a psychological thriller with supernatural overtones. With Monkey Beach, Robinson makes this territory her own. The award-winning author of Traplines has a legitimate claim to this untold part of the map, around the Douglas Channel between Prince Rupert and Bella Bella on British Columbia's northwest coast. ![]() ![]() ![]() The appearance of these mythical creatures - in reality, in story, in dreams, or in visions - is central to the plot of Eden Robinson's first novel, Monkey Beach. Monkey Beach is a place where Sasquatches are often sighted. B'gwus is the Haisla name for a Sasquatch, a creature that looks like a "large hairy monkey" rumored to live in the rain forest of the Pacific Coast. ![]()
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