'Whalefall' by Daniel Kraus is a thriller about diving, loss and new beginnings
2024-04-02 · 11 min · 7 entities
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Jay, the 17-year-old at the heart of Daniel Kraus' novel Whalefall , has an hour of oxygen left on his tank. He's been diving in the ocean off the coast of Monterey, California trying to recover a skeleton — but his mission is complicated when he's swallowed whole by a sperm whale. In today's episode, Kraus speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about how a book that's so enmeshed in death also reveals quite a lot about life, and how he conceptualized the pacing of his chapters to emphasize Jay's race against time.
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