Family of Origin - C.J. Hauser

C.J. Hauser

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Narrator: Kristen Sieh

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When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leaps 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 fathers field station, a wild and isolated spot off the Gulf Coast. Here, their fathers 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 humanitys best days are behind us., On an island that is always looking backward, its 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 a