Whale talk by chris crutcher5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() often finds Barbour harassing Chris Coughlin, an intellectually disabled student who must unfairly live in the wake of a widely admired older brother who died in a freak accident. His non-involvement irritates much of the faculty, who pride themselves on the physical achievements of their students, displaying favoritism toward their star athletes, such as Mike Barbour, a vicious bully. is a physically impressive senior who has refused to join any sports teams as a form of anger management, due to his anger issues since early childhood. J.'s adoptive mother, Abby, is a child-abuse lawyer, and his adoptive father, John Paul, is a community volunteer and guardian ad litem, who is still haunted by his youth, when he accidentally killed a child after a one-night stand with the child's mother.Īt Cutter High School, T. ![]() ![]() ![]() J.-lives with his loving, adoptive white family in the nearly all-white town of Cutter, Washington. The biological son of a white mother and a half-black, half-Japanese father, The Tao Jones-known as T. jumbles together a shabby swim team of student underdogs in order to aggravate and shame his high school's elitist athletics program. It is narrated in the first person by the quick-witted, sarcastic, and athletic "T.J." Jones, an adopted Asian-African-European-American teenager living in Cutter, Washington, a fictional location in the Pacific Northwest's Inland Empire, set about 50 miles outside of Spokane. Whale Talk is a 2001 novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher. ![]()
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