In the beautiful if overladen 'Migrations,' by Charlotte McConaghy, animals are vanishing and a troubled woman follows the last terns to Antarctica.
The author has been everywhere, in life and fiction. “A Children’s Bible” passionately fuses the two: “You’ve gotta be Chicken Little sooner or later.”, where she’s looking for a fishing vessel that will allow her to follow the terns. The deal she offers is that the birds, prodigious hunters and marathon athletes, will lead the fishers directly to the long-sought but probably mythical “Golden Catch.
McConaghy has a gift for sketching out enveloping, memorable characters using only the smallest of strokes, which makes Franny’s time with the crew of the Saghani the novel’s strongest and most vibrant thread. Along with Basil , Lea , Samuel and a smattering of other seamen,moves into what I have to call uncharted waters, because they are. From Greenland on south through the Atlantic they face storms, run-ins with the law, degrading morale and potential mutiny.” offer up “Migrations” as a kind of bookend to that early American industrial-era parable.
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