Monkey Beach is a place where Sasquatches are often sighted.
The award-winning author of Traplines has a legitimate claim to this untold part of the map, around the Douglas Channel between Prince Rupert and Bella Bella on British Columbia's northwest coast. With Monkey Beach , Robinson makes this territory her own. Jimmy and his boss Josh are missing and feared drowned. Lisa and her parents, Albert and Gladys, wait by the telephone for news. Her parents fly out to be nearer the search site.