Call Me Ishmaelle.

"Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the NBCC-winning author, a subversive, rollicking, and feminist retelling of Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman I must work on a ship as a man . . . Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my fellows on this desolate salt marsh. I must find freedom on the seas. One of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, Xiaolu Guo is...