Mounting the Whale by Colleen McCarty

Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Colleen McCarty (October 28, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615876013
ISBN-13: 978-0615876016

Praise for MOUNTING THE WHALE

"4 out of 5 stars! Genuinely charming. Mounting the Whale is a dramatic black comedy that seamlessly intersperses moments of mature insight with gut-busting hilarity." ―San Francisco Book Review

"With a light touch and a cast of brilliantly eccentric characters, MOUNTING THE WHALE is a wild caper with a heart that beats the truth about what it really means to find someone." ―Kristen Valentine, Author of Gone Cold and Reviews Editor at Black Heart Magazine

"Mounting the Whale is an amazing and funny book: think Wes Anderson meets Arrested Development!" ―Lindsey Testolin, Award Winning Artist and Animator

"What an impressive first novel with a cast of complex, quirky characters that take you beyond familiar boundaries, then bring you home again. Colleen McCarty has written an engaging story that's warm and edgy at the same time." ―Teresa Miller, Director of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers and Host of OETA's Writing Out Loud

The self-made and affluent Pierce family is hurled into a seamy kidnapping plot when they receive a text message from Janine—the most troubled of all the Pierce children.

Cartel got me, tell mom

The siblings, drowning in their own problems, are forced to focus on the task at hand: a half-cocked rescue mission that involves a borrowed yacht, a favor from a notorious drug kingpin, and a shocking reunion none of them expected.

When the family decides to sneak into Mexico, mother Cybil is forced to deal with a rival CEO whom she’s developed feelings for in secret. Her only son, Tom, is willing to risk bodily harm to save Janine while his other sisters, Carlyle and Valerie, suspect that the kidnapping is less than legitimate.

The long sea voyage tests the limits of the family’s already frail bonds. Dark secrets of infertility, drugs, gambling and extreme taxidermy begin to float to the surface. But nothing compares to what they begin to learn about their missing sister.

If they’re going to make it out alive, they have to recognize they’re fighting the same battles and facing life’s greatest challenges: love, loneliness, and the struggle to find a place in the world.

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Colleen McCarty is a graduate of the University of Tulsa and an entrepreneur. She and her husband own Tulsa restaurant Mod's Coffee and Crepes. She's been featured on Entrepreneur.com, and in the Wall Street Journal. This is her first novel. Though Colleen has ghostwritten books for CEOs and New York Times Bestsellers, this is her first foray into publishing her own work. Colleen lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband, daughter and two large dogs. Follow her writing at colleen-mccarty.com.

        

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