A trippy and darkly funny portrait of the commercial fishing industry, Slime Line is the tragicomic yarn of one troubled college dropout’s desperate attempts to remake himself into a hard-nosed working man.
In the wake of his father’s death, Garrett Deaver washes up at a salmon processing plant in his dad’s old stomping grounds of Alaska. There, he renames himself Beaver–because just like a beaver, he’s “an industrious motherfucker”– and vows to become a supervisor at Klak Fancy Salmon, LLC. But moving up within the industry’s seasonal underclass is anything but simple, and soon he finds himself with real, and imagined, enemies at the plant. As amphetamines scramble his sense of reality, and secrets about his father’s life are revealed, the job he’d hoped would bring him salvation threatens to leave him broke, alone, and–maybe even literally–underwater.Author: Jake Maynard
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 06/01/2024
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.51w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781959000198
Language: English
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