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At a remote control military foundation in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians listen to a confounding sound. It is the voice of the whale, but the one which sings at a consistency - 52 hertz - never before heard by experts, and inaudible to other participants of its species. The whale seems to be by themselves in the Pacific Ocean, unable to talk to its kind. Three thousand mls away, in an apartment in Harlem, a sudden disorder plunges a 48-year-old female named Leonora into a coma. She wakes up in a medical center room, barely in a position to speak, adrift on the planet. Wandering the Internet late one evening she discovers the saga of the whale - and confirms her life transformed by the energy of its account. In 52 Blue, Leslie Jamison, best-selling author of The Empathy Examinations, weaves alongside one another these stories in a boldly original exploration of medical finding refracted through the lens of real human longing. Venturing into the community of people gathering in a strange animal's wake - an excellent marine biologist, a lovelorn photographer covered in whale body art, an obsessed filmmaker, and lastly Leonora - Jamison comes away with an absorbing meditation on what this means to be by themselves, and how exactly we seek signifying from the natural world.
