Whalesong

In the years after the stars fell, young Noah Manaluk, an Inupiat Eskimo living at Point Hope, Alaska, eats a piece of possessed seal liver that changes his life. By the time he is 17 he is a shaman who can call game to the hunters' spears and fish into nets cast by the People. Thinker, a humpback whale, is the only one of his pod who perceives anything beyond his immediate surroundings. He has been aware for some time of the longteeth waiting at the top of the world, but now something has chang