科图分类法:	I712.45/2301 版次：
中图分类法:	I712.45 版次：
著者:	Hauser, CJ.
题名:	Family of origin / / ,
出版发行:	出版地： New York : 出版社： Doubleday, 出版日期： 2019.
载体形态:	287 p. ; 25 cm.
内容提要:	"When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's Island, he calls on Elsa, his estranged, older half-sister, to help pick up the pieces. This, despite the fact that it was he and Elsa who broke the family in the first place. The Greys have been avoiding each other for a dozen years. Elsa and Nolan travel to their father's field station, a wild and isolated spot off the Gulf Coast. Here, their father's fatalistic colleagues, the Reversalists, obsessively study the undowny bufflehead, a rare sea duck whose loss of waterproof feathers proves, they say, that evolution is running in reverse and humanity's best days are behind us. On an island that is always looking backward, it's impossible for the siblings to ignore their past. Stuck together in the close quarters of their island stilt-house, and provoked by the absurd antics of the remaining Reversalists, years of family secrecy and blame between Elsa and Nolan threaten to ruin them all over again. As the Greys urgently trek the island to find the so-called Paradise Duck, their father's final obsession, they begin to fear that they were their father's first evidence that the future held no hope. In [this book, the author] speaks to a generation's uncertainties: Is it possible to live in our broken world with both scientific pragmatism and hope? What does one generation owe another? How do we know which parts of the past, and ourselves, to jettison and which to keep? Delightfully funny, fiercely original, high-spirited and warm, [this book] grapples with questions of nature and nurture, evolution and mating, intimacy and betrayal, progress and forgiveness."--Provided by publisher.
主题词:	Brothers and sisters
主题词:	Fathers Death
主题词:	Islands
主题词:	Family secrets
主题词:	Scientists
索书号:	I712.45/2301