Thar She Blows: a novel

Thar She Blows: a novel

by Susan Emshwiller
Thar She Blows: a novel

Thar She Blows: a novel

by Susan Emshwiller

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Overview

Caught in a redundant housewife existence, Ann never leaves her beige suburban home, her schlubby do-nothing son Brian is directionless after graduating high-school, and it looks like nothing will ever change. But when Brian is swallowed by a whale and Ann receives a garbled phone call from him, she is determined to find that monstrous beast and rescue her son. Experts, her ex, the press-everyone thinks she's crazy-but she's committed to her worthy quest. Both Brian and Ann battle their skeptical inner voices in an inspiring journey of self-discovery, reinvention, survival, and sacrifice. As mother and son face epic adventures, they encounter unlikely allies from across the globe and might just find each other. Yet the ultimate danger is closing in...

Devilishly funny, heartbreaking, thrilling, this epic whale-of-a-tale combines absurdist magical realism with intimate family dynamics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780989423687
Publisher: Susan Emshwiller
Publication date: 04/11/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 350
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

I'm a produced screenwriter (including co-writer of the film Pollock), a filmmaker, a published playwright, and short story writer. My writing can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Independent Ink Magazine, Black Heart Magazine, Gone Lawn, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, and Anchala Studios Flash Fiction. I was a set decorator for many years in Hollywood and a featured actress in Robert Altman's The Player. My feature film, In the Land of Milk and Money, a wild social satire, garnered awards and rave reviews at festivals in the US and internationally. I'm a member of the Writer's Guild of America and have taught screenwriting at North Carolina State University, OLLI at Duke, the Met Theatre in Los Angeles, and in conferences and festivals around the country. I live with my husband, dogs, and chickens in Santa Fe NM where I enjoy inventing stories and backyard contraptions.

Table of Contents

Brian's Late

Way Past Dinner Time

Toke Talks

On Deck

Fault

Logistics

The Whale

Last stupid Moment

"I'm serious"-"Whatever."

The First Morning

Freak Out in the Beast

Something is Crying Inside

Another arrival

Phone Home

Dancing

Dead

A Dream?

Hunger

Dan Saw the News

Not Sleeping in the Whale

Night Drifting

Let there Be Light

Should I cry?

Cave Man

Destruction

Whale Diet

Writing on the Wall

Planning in Home

Outside

Bringing in, Sending out Treasures

Sea World

Work in Home

Out to Sea

At Home in Home

Bottle bobbing

House for Sale

Duet

While Bottle Journeys

Leaving

Tool

Up the Pacific Coast Highway

What is Shrimp?

Floating City

Skin

Tobey and Arthur

Burning

Crowdfunding

Time in Home

Crowd Mind

Who's Watch?

Making Movies

Less Ice

What Ann Knows about Whales

Let it be found

The Bridge

Another Night

Intake

That Inner Voice

Beige Wakeup

Under Water

Bad Mommy

Glacier

Look at Asshole

Found or Not

Tissue Therapy

Thinking it Through

Birthday Presents

Doctor and Tobey

New Name

Back with Tobey and Arthur

Package of Money

Out of Options

New To-Do

Meds

Final Acts

Delete the Past

Doc Flemming

Down the Tube

Waiting and Watching

Liesl

Return to the Cabin

Ready to House-sit

Our First Fight

Birthday Number Two

Over the Ocean

Sleeping in the Whale

Norway

Breathing is Worse

Gjesken's Home

Child Meltdown

Phone Fight

Liesl Wants to Call

Call from Liesl

Police Station

Surprised at Mom

AMBER Alert

Singing

Hero's Journey

Imagining

Supplies

Holy Mackerel

Night Sky Dancing

The Boat

On Your Mark, Mark

I Know More than Torsten

Nate, Alaska State Trooper

Lost Again

Missing

Lunch Idea

Morning After

Platform Troubles

Letter Writing

Remote Market

First Time

Helicopter

Another Time

Please Swallow

Interruptus

Bottle's Journey

Pinocchio Out Back

Nate and Togo

Possible Ping

Home is Mad

In the Sea

Nate Contributes

From His Pocket

On the Deck

Mother and Child

Pinocchio is Loved

Swirling Patterns in the Bedspread

Perp's Phone Tracked

Jenny on the Run

Witness

Mark's Feeling Better

Jenny's Lost

Brainstorming

Nate in the Hospital

Ray and Rascal

Oranges

SEAL Man and Arthur

Historic Marker Search

New Morning

Operations Order

Houston

Footage Review

The White Bear Hotel

Evidence

Image Search

Alaska to Missouri

Reunion

Why Tobey Isn't Here

Under the Counter

On the Way

Coming Down From on High

Liesl and the Seal

Disaster

Amelia and Sprout

What About Brian?

Sneaking into the Hotel

After the Helicopter

Jenny's Guilty

Whaling Footage

What's the Holdup?

Call to Ann

Call from Ann

Torsten Prepares

Alaskan Highway

Second Radar Blip

A Whaler?

Screeching Creature

Emergency

Jenny's Call

Bathroom

Four Flights Up

Space Walk

On the Horizon

No Beacon

Ann in front

Heartbeat

Showdown

Longitude and Latitude

Gotta Go

Battle

Noises Outside

Out of the Mist

Goodbye

My Record Breaking Breath

Circle of Ships

Speaking

Balance


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