Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
A Novel

Julie Bird has returned to her hometown and things become interesting. Initially it is the day of boating which ends with a whale breaching itself and dying on the beach. As the whale decays, things in her life take interesting turns. Her father, Marty, is a Gulf War Veteran who is dealing with PTSD......more

Everyone is already forgotten.She could relax. Even the mass extinction humans were creating, paring down the things worth remembering, trimming diversity into manicured homogeneity, running out of space while surrounded by an infinite vacuum, even this is forgotten as the galaxy moves to collide w......more

Land Mammals and Sea Creatures is a deeply engaging debut novel by Jen Neale about the living, the dying and all the complications in between. The story begins with twenty-something Julie Bird and her father Marty witnessing the simultaneous arrival of a stranger and a whale on a beach near where Mar......more

"Everyone Is Already Forgotten" What with the PTSD, the difficult characters, the magical realism, and that big rotting blue whale - it takes a little while for this book to make its intentions known and for the reader to open up to it. But then it becomes a fascinating ride. Marty, a wounded Gulf War......more