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A gothic, literary trip set in New Great britain, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles 100 years of the once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, informed by its previous surviving member. Mercy Rathbone, 15 years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her daddy, the previous in the beleaguered dynasty, has been lost at sea for seven years - ever since the previous whale was seen off the shoreline of Naiwayonk, Connecticut. Mercy's memory of her daddy grow dimmer every day, and she spends almost all of her amount of time in the attic hideaway of her reclusive uncle Mordecai, who shows her the secrets of Greek background and nautical navigation through his assortment of specimens and moldering books. But when a strange, violent visitor turns up one nighttime, Mercy and Mordecai are pressured to flee the crumbling mansion and placed sail on a journey that provides them deep in to the haunted background of the Rathbone family, and the reasons for its undoing. As Mercy and Mordecai sail from island to island off the Connecticut shoreline, encountering risks and mysteries, friends and foes, they untangle the knots of the Rathbone tale, discovering secrets long encased in recollection. They learn the annals of the family's founder and patriarch, Moses Rathbone, and the legendary empire he built of ships staffed with the sons of his many, many wives. Sons who stumbled in their father's shadow, sidetracked by the introduction of the Stark sisters, a trio of "golden" young ladies, whose mesmerizing beauty may have sparked the Rathbone's drop. From the depths of the sea to the depressed heights of the widow's walk; from the knowledge of the worn Rathbone wives to the incomprehensible origins of the sinking island, Mercy and Mordecai's quest will bring these to places they never thought possible. But will they piece together a possible future from the errors of the past, or is the once great family's destiny doomed to match that of the whales themselves? Inspired by The Odyssey by means of Edgar Allan Poe and Moby Dick, The Rathbones is an ambitious, mythic, and courageous head to de drive that represents the debut of the dazzling new literary tone of voice.
