Makara
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kristen Ringman
Edition: 1st Handtype Press ed.
Publisher: Handtype Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780979881640
Subjects: Parent and child; Mime; Lesbians; Deafness; Human-animal relationships; Fiction
Notes: What if you grew up with a seal mother and a human father? Fionnuala is such a daughter: a part-human, part-seal deaf woman who falls in love with Neela, a Hearing woman in India. While growing up with Neela's family in Tamil Nadu, she struggles with her distant parents living apart in Ireland and Indonesia. Eventually her father brings her to Venice where she becomes a mime artist. What bings them all together is the unstoppable undercurrent of ache running through the sea of their lives. -- taken from back cover.