Firebird Fantasy The Changeling Sea, (Paperback)

from ncgraham

In Patricia McKillip's The Changeling Sea, the child Periwinkle, embittered and grief-stricken by the death of her fisherman father and the withdrawal of her mother from any semblance of conscious living, hexes the sea. Judging from this summary (as well as the one given on the book's back cover)...

from nmhale

Peri has been angry at the sea ever since the day her fisherman father left and his boat returned without him. Abandoned by her mother as well, who is drowning in her sorrow, Peri devises to get her revenge on the sea. Using knowledge an old woman (who has also mysteriously disappeared) taught he...

from atimco

It's been too long since my last Patricia McKillip title. The Changeling Sea is the story of Peri, short for Periwinkle, who is angry at the sea for taking her father and leaving her a mother whose mourning has led her into a dream-world. In their fishing village, the sea is everything, but Peri,...

from Herenya

No one really knew where Peri lived the year after the sea took her father and cast his boat, shrouded in a tangle of fishing net, like an empty shell back onto the beach. The Changeling Sea is short, straightforward (for McKillip) and exquisite. It reads like a fairytale - an unfamiliar, poignan...

from rocalisa

The Changeling Sea - Patricia A. McKillip YA Fantasy; reread; 10/10 When I realised I couldn't manage to read some of the more detailed books I had on the TBR at this time, I went down to the library room and pulled out some old favourites that I'd like to reread. The Changeling Sea has always be...