The Whale’s Last Song is a touching, tender fable, a parable about what we must sacrifice for those we love; a rumination on the tragic mistakes in every life – and the steadfastness that is required to overcome those mistakes – and a love song to the natural world.
Joanne will be in conversation with Gail Schimmel.
About the book:
As a terrible pandemic rages through the small medieval hamlet of Villingraz, a young girl, Estie, accompanied by her goat Isabel, sets off into the forest in search of a cure for her sister, who is infected with the pox. Her father, Merdocai has surrendered himself to the evil Marquis to be experimented upon for the Greater Good, and with her mother long dead, all Estie has to keep her going is the love of her sister, her father and her friend Rainer, a stuttering poet.
As Estie ventures deeper into the forest, she encounters creatures and teachers who hold the answers to all the questions she has about who she is and where she has come from. Meanwhile, out in the depths of the ocean, a whale is returning to the place he was born to exhale his last breath. While Estie does not know this, he too holds secrets that belong to Estie’s story.
