Kill Ahab: Confessions of a White Whale

It's Moby Dick from the whale's point of view.

Near the end of his life, beached on the New England coast, the White Whale finally sets the record straight, spinning a tale of high adventure and rich emotion, of love and loss, of loathing and revenge. Propelling his story is Ahab, the mad captain fixated on the "monster" who took his leg. But Ahab's obsession is not one-sided. Whales, too, have long memories.

Fiction's most famous fish is not who we thought.

"Call me...anything," he says. "But do not call me Moby Dick."

Kirkus Reviews calls it a "new spin on the Melville classic. A modern literary reworking that ... captures the spirit of its inspiration."