The Odd Sea: A Novel - Softcover

"A haunting first novel that takes a horrifying family calamity and turns it into a form of magic."--The New York Times

"A powerful debut novel."--People

"[An] extraordinarily good first novel . . . The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama nor any word out of place."--Time

"A luminous parable about growing up, about the necessity of dealing with inevitable loss and questions that cannot be answered . . . Reiken is a smoothly seductive storyteller. He has talent for telling but not telling, for revealing only enough information to whet our appetite."--Newsday

In a debut novel, Philip Shumway describes the disappearance of his older teenage brother, Ethan, and the struggle of each member of his family to deal with the loss and find solace in family love. Reprint.