what a disappointment
My God. After 300 pages, I realized that not one good thing had happened to anyone in the book. Suicide, cannibalism, miscarriages, madness, just to name a few. The author has a whimsically intense way of writing; at times she manages to capture a quaint voice of yesteryear. But the main character is not convincing and her motivation for her aberrant acts is fuzzy. I finally gave up. The book certainly did a fine job of convincing one not to go whaling- but continuing on would have just been an exercise in endurance.