TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hogan,Linda
TI  - People of the whale: a novel 
SN  - 9780393064575
AV  - PS3558.O34726 P46 2008
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Culture conflict
N2  - Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind
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