The flashback ends and Lisamarie returns to the present moment, again contemplating her dream and the message of the crows. Lisamarie decides not to tell him about what she saw. She screams and Jimmy appears and excitedly starts taking photos. She glimpses a brown fur-covered man who smiles at her and then vanishes behind a tree. Lisamarie goes to look for him, running after what she thinks is her brother, only to be left with a strange “prickled” feeling in her body. They wake up the next morning on the beach to discover that Jimmy is gone. When the boat reaches the shore, Jimmy tries to run into the woods but is stopped by his family. Everyone views it as a chance for a relaxing vacation, except Jimmy who is adamant about photographing the sasquatches. The whole family, as well as Lisamarie’s aunt and uncle, goes on a boat trip to Monkey Beach. The stories inspired the young Jimmy to buy a camera and go to Monkey Beach, where he believed he could photograph the sasquatch. Lisamarie’s grandmother ( Ma-ma-oo) always insisted that Al told the story wrong-too gruesome and dramatic. Lisamarie remembers a story that her father used to tell her and Jimmy when they were children about trappers who were confronted and attacked by sasquatch men in the woods. Lisamarie reveals that the night of his disappearance, she dreamt she saw Jimmy at Monkey Beach.
From there they will travel to Namu, where they will search for Jimmy. Lisamarie’s parents, Gladys and Al, leave to fly to Vancouver. The Coast Guard calls Lisamarie’s mother to tell her that Jimmy still has not been found. The narrator explains the history of the Haisla reservation territory, which is located on Princess Royal Island in British Columbia, Canada. Upon waking, she experiences six crows speaking to her the Haisla word “ la’es.” She had been up late in a meeting the previous night to discuss her brother Jimmy, who has disappeared out at sea while on a fishing job with a man named Josh.
The novel opens with the protagonist, Lisamarie, waking up after getting little sleep.
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