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Fluke
Marine biologist Nate Quinn is in Hawaii to understand humpback whale song. An impossible sighting pulls him away from that question, and then his research facility is wrecked and a crucial photograph disappears.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Just why do humpback whales sing?”Read the full description at Little, Brown Book Group
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What makes it funny?
Nate is trying to understand a whale’s voice when he gets a written insult on its tail instead. Nobody else sees it. A researcher who needs evidence has an unusually embarrassing claim to prove.
The comedy at work
Scientific habits give Nate a problem: he has to explain what he saw, but the evidence keeps vanishing. The more he tries to investigate rationally, the less reasonable his situation sounds.
Try this if…
Marine research leads into extravagant undersea fantasy here, with eccentric scientists along for the journey. Readers in funny-book discussions include Fluke among their recommendations.
Good to know
The book includes marijuana use and sexual humor.
A few distinguishing details
- A whale researcher needs proof that a humpback insulted him.
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