Far Cry

"Far Cry is a brilliant, hypnotic work—a collision of invisible, unforgettable lives. It asks what we owe to duty, to family and to love, and gives us the language, and the heart, to bear the beautiful complexity of the answers." —Madeleine Thien, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing"Rich and strange—Alissa York’s story of the west coast is so embodied, real, visceral, you can smell the canneries, feel the strangeness of basking sharks the length of a bus, of salmon whacking the hull of a gillnetter in their shocking plenty. Far Cry rests inside its world with authority and magic, shedding light on what the real and secret lives of women and men must have contained: the confusion, the love, the quicksand of attraction, the poverty and mayhem. The sea.” —Shaena Lambert, author of Petra and Oh, My Darling"There is a vivid rush of sea air and immediately you are immersed in this finely crafted historical novel, gripped by its world and characters until you reach the powerful, tragic conclusion. This book will stay with me for a long time." —Adam Foulds, author of The Quickening Maze and Dream Sequence"Far Cry is a mystery that only reveals the whole, shocking truth in the final pages, where the pieces come together with an almost audible snap." —Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander and Ridgerunner "Beautiful and deeply moving, Alissa York's Far Cry immerses its readers in the tumultuous early years of Canada's west coast fisheries, chronicling with meticulous care a world now lost. This is a devastating, fiercely intelligent novel about love, desire, and loss and the secrets that bind them." —Steven Price, author of By Gaslight and Lampedusa"Dazzling and brilliant. . . . A transfixing, glorious novel. . . . With Far Cry, Alissa York has written what is surely one of the finest novels of the year, an astonishing and immersive journey that will leave its readers reeling, and raving to anyone who will listen." —Toronto Star