Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls

and fuss over Fini's hair but since she came home from the hospital Granny is like a different person

there can be no greater wrong--and to make it right

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People Of The Whale: A Novel Teen Fiction Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-oldRaised In A Remote Seaside Village, Thomas Witka Just Marries Ruth, His Beloved Since Infancy. But An Ill fated Decision To Fight In Vietnam Changes His Life Forever: Cut Off From His Native American Community, He Fathers A Child With Another Woman. When He Returns Home A Hero, He Finds His Tribe In Conflict Over The Decision To Hunt A Whale, Both A Symbol Of Spirituality And Rebirth And A Means Of Survival. In The End, He Reconciles His Two