"Families." . . "FICTION / General" . . "Whaling." . . "Domestic fiction." . . "New England" . . "New England." . "Historical." . . "A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member. Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father, the last in the beleaguered dynasty, has been lost at sea for seven years - ever since the last whale was seen off the coast of Naiwayonk, Connecticut. Mercy's memories of her father grow dimmer each day, and she spends most of her time in the attic hideaway of her reclusive uncle Mordecai, who teaches her the secrets of Greek history and nautical navigation through his collection of specimens and moldering books. But when a strange, violent visitor turns up one night, Mercy and Mordecai are forced to flee the crumbling mansion and set sail on a journey that will bring them deep into the haunted history of the Rathbone family, and the reasons for its undoing. As Mercy and Mordecai sail from island to island off the Connecticut coast, encountering dangers and mysteries, friends and foes, they untangle the knots of the Rathbone story, discovering secrets long encased in memory. They learn the history of the family's founder and patriarch, Moses Rathbone, and the legendary empire he built of ships staffed with the sons of his many, many wives. Sons who stumbled in their father's shadow, distracted by the arrival of the Stark sisters, a trio of \"golden\" girls, whose mesmerizing beauty may have sparked the Rathbone's decline. From the depths of the sea to the lonely heights of the widow's walk; from the wisdom of the worn Rathbone wives to the mysterious origins of a sinking island, Mercy and Mordecai's journey will bring them to places they never thought possible. But will they piece together a possible future from the mistakes of the past, or is the once great family's fate doomed to match that of the whales themselves' Inspired by The Odyssey by way of Edgar Allan Poe and Moby Dick, The Rathbones is an ambitious, mythic, and courageous tour de force that marks the debut of a dazzling new literary voice."@en . . "The Rathbones : a novel"@en . . . . . "Domestic fiction" . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . . "Historical fiction"@en . "Historical fiction" . "Sagas"@en . . . "The rathbones"@en . "Mercy, the fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England, spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years. With her reclusive cousin Mordecai, Mercy studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history."@en . . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . "Moses, the revered patriarch of the Rathbone family, possessed an otherworldly instinct for spotting the whale. But years of bad decisions by the heirs to his fortune have whittled his formerly robust family down to just one surviving member: a young girl, left to live in the broken-down ancestral mansion that at one time had glowed golden with the spoils of the hunt. Mercy, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father, the last in the dynasty of New England whalers, has been lost at sea for seven years -- ever since the last sperm whale was seen off the coast of Naiwayonk, Connecticut. Mercy's memories of her father and of the time before he left grow dimmer each day, and she spends most of her time in the attic hideaway of her reclusive Uncle Mordecai, who teaches her the secrets of Greek history and navigation through his collection of moldering books. But when a strange, violent visitor turns up one night on the widow's walk, Mercy and Mordecai are forced to flee the house and set sail on a journey that will bring them deep into the haunted history of the Rathbone family." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion where she studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history." . "The Rathbones"@en . . "The Rathbones" . "The fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion where she studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history."@en . "A-- The OdysseyMoby Dick, The Rathbones is an ambitious, mythic, and courageous tour de force that marks the debut of a dazzling new literary voice."@en . . . . . . . "\"Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father has been lost at sea for seven years--ever since the last whale was seen off Naiwayonk, Connecticut. Mercy spends most of her time with her reclusive uncle Mordecai, who teaches her Greek history and nautical navigation. But when a strange, violent visitor turns up, they are forced to flee the crumbling mansion and set sail on a journey that will lead deep into the haunted history of the Rathbone family and the reasons for its undoing\"--Back cover."@en . . . 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