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Underjungle
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.00
ISBN13: 9781951213756
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Published: Aug 1 2023
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.35
Language: English
Strange, beautiful, and brilliant! --Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
2023 FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST FOR FANTASY
Deep below the surface, our world is cold, dark and content. Colors are fickle. Red disappears first as you descend, followed by the yellow of the sun. The hundred shades of blue last the longest, but eventually there is only black--and the candied ooze of the ocean floor...
In Underjungle, an intelligent life form known as the yc exist in the ocean's depths, an apex predator among most fish. Long ago, this species fractured from a single group into seven distinct tribes, each with their own dialect and cultural idiosyncrasies. Now, one tribe, the Gjala, has stumbled across a most intriguing and unusual object: a sunken corpse. As news travels across the ocean, and the other tribes converge to investigate, the consequences and questions raised will reverberate for generations to come.
Underjungle asks readers to give themselves up to another world: to step outside not just of themselves, but of their species. A broad metaphysical story of fantastical world-building from accomplished journalist and nature writer James Sturz, Underjungle is a lyrical tale of love and war, encompassing the marine environment, science, art, philosophy and grief--as deep and surprising as life on the seafloor, where much of this story is set.
Buoyed by humor and tinged with the unshakeable melancholy of loss is the existential question that forever ties the novel to our human experience: what is our purpose?
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