The Great Offshore Grounds, A novel

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologiesnational, individual, and collectivethat drive and define us.On the day of their estranged fathers wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. Its been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of personal and professional dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim whats theirs. Except, instead of money, what their father gives them is informationa namewhich forces them to come to grips with a long-held family secret. In the face of...