Potluck at Jane's
Migrations
by Charlotte McConaghy.
Synopsis
For fans of Lily King, Barbara Kingsolver, and Delia Owens, a novel about a young woman with a dark past chasing the world's last flock of Arctic terns as they migrate south, along with her own final chance for redemption.
The animals are dying. Soon we will be alone here.
Franny Stone has spent her life beside the sea, obsessed with the birds that soar above it, preferring the wildness of currents and waves to anything humans have to offer. But as temperatures rise and more of the world is threatened by extinctions, her beloved birds begin to disappear. In remote Greenland, Franny finds the last flock of Arctic terns, which have the longest migration of any animal, and decides to follow them herself to the end of their route, in distant Antarctica. As her ship and its salty, eccentric crew fights its way south, the story of Franny's life unspools: her mother's disappearance, her lonely childhood, a shocking crime, and her passionate yet complicated marriage. When the voyage turns perilous, Franny fears that the wildness within her, the very thing she's been running from and yet searching for, has finally caught up with her.
Shatteringly beautiful in its evocation of the natural world, Migrations is an ode to the wild places and creatures now threatened. But at its heart, it is a timeless story about the lengths we will go--to the edges of the world--for the people we love.
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