From exposure to the hydrocarbons? Doesn't that cause cancer? It hurts to speak, and anyway, Gregg's glued to the radio, still not talking."īy Lorina Ewing (Lorina's Touch Publishing) A jackhammer judders inside her head, and her throat feels inflamed. Her stomach still threatens at any minute to ride an express elevator up her esophagus and out her mouth. When they enter the tide rip off Harraman Entrance, where the crude petroleum has mixed with seaweed, drift logs, and rubbish like plastic bags and Styrofoam containers, it resembles some kind of hellish cesspool. Oil and water, she finds herself repeating inanely, oil and water don't mix. The stench of it scrapes the back of her throat. Traversing the oil spill is like motoring through a boundless sewer. The blurb: Influenced by her own experience during the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Mei Mei Evans' novel centers on a down-on-his-luck skipper and his lone deckhand as an oil spill threatens the coast community of Selby.Įxcerpt: "Lee paces the deck. By Mei Mei Evans (University of Alaska Press, $15.95)
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