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Title: 52 Blue

Author: Leslie Jamison

Narrator: Leslie Jamison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-14

Publisher: The Atavist

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency - 52 hertz - never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind.

Three thousand miles away, in an apartment in Harlem, a sudden illness plunges a 48-year-old woman named Leonora into a coma. She wakes up in a hospital room, barely able to speak, adrift in the world. Wandering the Internet late one night she discovers the saga of the whale - and finds her life transformed by the power of its story.

In 52 Blue, Leslie Jamison, best-selling author of The Empathy Exams, weaves together these stories in a boldly original exploration of scientific discovery refracted through the lens of human longing. Venturing into the community of people gathering in a mysterious animals wake - a brilliant marine biologist, a lovelorn photographer covered in whale tattoos, an obsessed filmmaker, and finally Leonora - Jamison comes away with an absorbing meditation on what it means to be alone, and how we seek meaning from the natural world.

Members Reviews:

I like the second half of the book much more than ...

I like the second half of the book much more than the first half. At first, I thought it was going to be a relatively science story about the whale. And then, when it came to chapter 3, the story of Leonora randomly came up. Chapter 4 came back to the whale; chapter 5 was about Leonora again; chapter 6 talked about the whale; chapter 7 went back to Leonora. I was just so confused at first because I couldnât see any connection between whale 52 and Leonora.

At the end of chapter 7, Leonora thought âI wish I could whale.â At that point, I started to realize that it probably because they were both lonely. However, when I expected to see more about Leonora, her story stopped here. You bought more characters into the book: May Ann Daher, Juliana, Emerson, Shorna, etc. All of them were, to some extent, lonely and isolated. And they related to themselves with whale 52.

I saw Leonora again in chapter 14. You emphasized her psychological connection to whale 52. Now, that was the first time I could really see the relationship between whale 52 and the people you mentioned here. And then, you started to switch between Leonora and Whale 52 again.

I kinda know what you were doing. By having the two story lines switched around, you created a parallel between whale 52 and Leonora, as well as the other people you mentioned in the book. I really like the second half of the book. However, the order of the beginning was very odd. I almost wanted to quit reading at one point. If I really did so, I would never know how interesting it was at the end.

Maybe you can find a way to make the parallel more obvious at the beginning. In that case, the organization of the book would be much better. I really like the end, especially the part you said 52 Blue was a metaphor for loneliness. After I finished the book, I could really see a connection between whale 52 and the people. I also think it would be great if you could make the readers see the connection more clear from the beginning.

I felt myself expecting something to come out of her ties to the whale only to be disappointed when nothing happens beyond her i

Jamison, in â52 Blue,â starts strongly with an enticing introductory chapter.