![]() ![]() She is found up in a tree by her Uncle Geordie. We flash back to this incident: there had been an evacuation order and as Lisa’s parents are packing the car, she runs away, wanting to have an adventure. Lisa’s father tells Mick about the tidal wave that happened in July. In the next scene, Lisamarie’s family is helping Mick at his house with tidying up and going through all the paperwork that has piled up since he has gone missing. Mick comes back out into the car and we learn that Lisa’s father has backed down and accepted the money. They stop by Mick’s house and Al insists on giving him back the money, chasing his brother into the house. They stop at the bank and discover that Mick has deposited a large amount of money in Al’s account. The next day, Lisa’s father takes her with him on a trip to the village for groceries. Lisa’s parents inform Mick that most of his relatives and friends had thought that Mick was in jail after being shot and taken away by the FBI. The man is her Uncle Mick who has been gone for awhile. That day is Gladys’s birthday and in the morning a man appears at their door, which shocks both of Lisa’s parents. The next morning she tells her mother about the little man, but Gladys insists it was just a dream. The man appeared on her dresser while she was trying to fall asleep. She also remembers seeing the little man again one night when she was six years old. Lisamarie sometimes has a hard time distinguishing if some of these old memories are dreams or not. When she returns to the ditch later, the dog is dead. She wants her mother to come see the dog, but she insists that Lisa come back for lunch. Then she hears her mother calling for her. ![]() A strange little man with red hair comes by and tells her to return home. There is a flashback to another old memory of Lisamarie as a little girl sitting besides a ditch, observing a wounded dog. The flashback ends and Lisamarie returns to the present moment, again contemplating her dream and the message of the crows. Lisamarie decides not to tell him about what she saw. She screams and Jimmy appears and excitedly starts taking photos. She glimpses a brown fur-covered man who smiles at her and then vanishes behind a tree. Lisamarie goes to look for him, running after what she thinks is her brother, only to be left with a strange “prickled” feeling in her body. They wake up the next morning on the beach to discover that Jimmy is gone. When the boat reaches the shore, Jimmy tries to run into the woods but is stopped by his family. Everyone views it as a chance for a relaxing vacation, except Jimmy who is adamant about photographing the sasquatches. The whole family, as well as Lisamarie’s aunt and uncle, goes on a boat trip to Monkey Beach. The stories inspired the young Jimmy to buy a camera and go to Monkey Beach, where he believed he could photograph the sasquatch. Lisamarie’s grandmother ( Ma-ma-oo) always insisted that Al told the story wrong-too gruesome and dramatic. Lisamarie remembers a story that her father used to tell her and Jimmy when they were children about trappers who were confronted and attacked by sasquatch men in the woods. Lisamarie reveals that the night of his disappearance, she dreamt she saw Jimmy at Monkey Beach. From there they will travel to Namu, where they will search for Jimmy. Lisamarie’s parents, Gladys and Al, leave to fly to Vancouver. The Coast Guard calls Lisamarie’s mother to tell her that Jimmy still has not been found. ![]() The narrator explains the history of the Haisla reservation territory, which is located on Princess Royal Island in British Columbia, Canada. Upon waking, she experiences six crows speaking to her the Haisla word “ la’es.” She had been up late in a meeting the previous night to discuss her brother Jimmy, who has disappeared out at sea while on a fishing job with a man named Josh. The novel opens with the protagonist, Lisamarie, waking up after getting little sleep. ![]()
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