My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water

A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father.What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck.A child attacks Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping.In retaliation Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window, packs the damaged body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels.Thus starts Steinbeck's unusual, poetic novella about a young woman's transition from childhood to adulthood.