That night, Uncle Mick yelled out "Cookie" repeatedly in his sleep and then Lisa heard her uncle crying. The family stayed in a small house that used to be an outpost for checking their traplines. On a fishing trip with the family, Lisa heard ghosts talking to her for the first time. One day, Ma-ma-oo took Lisa out in her motorboat to Monkey Beach, where they lit a fire and provided offerings for Ba-ba-oo's birthday, Lisa's grandfather who passed away before she was born. Ma-ma-oo, Lisa's paternal grandmother, took Lisa down logging roads in her truck to collect varieties of berries, roots, and other plants with medical properties. After a particularly nasty one with a boy named Frank, they both end up in the hospital. Lisa perpetually got into fights at school. The family had not heard from Uncle Mick in years and thought that he had been in prison. It turns out that the man is Lisa's father's brother, Uncle Mick. When Lisa's mom finally came to the door to see who was there she was shocked by what she saw. Jimmy was racing around, desperate to hopefully run into a B'gwus - the Haisla version of a sasquatch - and take its picture, which would inevitably make his family rich.Īround the same time in her early childhood, a man came to the door on her mother's birthday. Lisa recalls a boat trip that her and her family took to Monkey Beach as a child.
The narration slips into the past and the tenses follow suit. The nearly-20-year-old narrator, Lisamarie Michelle Hill, stays behind at the family house with an aunt while her parents make their way to the part of the British Columbia coast where the search for her brother is happening. The first and longest part is “Love Like the Ocean.” The story begins at the Hills’ house in Kitimaat, the morning after the family received news that their son Jimmy has gone missing at sea. Monkey Beach begins with an epigraph of a Haisla proverb which reads, "It is possible to retaliate against an enemy, But impossible to retaliate against storms" (i). The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Robinson, Eden.
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