Son of Rokovoko

In the tradition of Moby-Dick comes a powerful, haunting reimagining told from the perspective of the man the world would call Queequeg. Born the son of the High Chief on the unmapped island of Rokovoko, he grows up between two worlds: the ancient rhythms of his people and an insatiable hunger for everything that lies beyond the horizon. When he stows away on a Yankee whaler, he leaves behind his birthright and a solemn promise to return. What follows is an odyssey of self-discovery across the world's oceans — from the decks of brutal whaling ships to the taverns of New Bedford and Nantucket, and finally aboard the doomed Pequod. As a master harpooneer, he forges an unlikely brotherhood with the wanderer Ishmael and watches a captain consumed by obsession steer his crew toward catastrophe. Torn between the pull of home, the brotherhood of the sea, and the irreversible changes wrought by the wider world, he must confront what it truly means to belong — and whether any man can return unchanged from the belly of the whale. Rich with the poetry of the Pacific and the raw power of the 19th-century whaling life, Son of Rokovoko is both a gripping adventure and a profound meditation on identity, destiny, colonialism, and the stories we carry across oceans. Perfect for readers of Moby-Dick, The Sympathizer, Pachinko, and The Overstory.