Lisa In Eden Robison's Monkey Beach

The novel, Monkey Beach by Eden Robison is told through the perspective of the main character Lisa. She is a young woman with the ability to see sprits and communicate with the dead. The story started when her parents’ gets a call from the coast guard telling them that her brother Jimmy is missing along with his friend Josh. Lisa’s parents then decide to go to Namu to get closer to the search and help in looking for Jimmy. While her parents are away, her Aunt Edith is staying with her to keep her company. Lisa then remembered what her brother said before leaving for the trip, that he took the job to make things right. Since Lisa cannot get her mind off her brother’s disappearance she started having flashbacks about her and Jimmy’s childhood and all other memories that led to her current life. She then decides to join her parents to look for Jimmy so she took her father’s motorboat on a long journey in the ocean to reunite with her parents, and possibly Jimmy. As Lisa starts her journey, she experiences more flashbacks along …show more content…
It felt like I am learning something about the First Nation when I was reading the novel. Reading the novel, it seemed that the main character was actually telling me the story how each events really happened. The main character seemed really calm despite the events that were happening. It also seemed that she didn’t care about what was happening to her brother but in reality she really do. Although, I find this novel a bit hard to read because of the switching between the current time and the flashbacks in the main character’s mind. I had to write down the events in a separate paper to be able to visualize the events and what was really happening in the story. There were also parts in the story that was a little bit difficult for me to understand and visualize maybe because it not something familiar to me