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Sucked into the belly of an 80-foot sperm whale, scuba diver Jay Gardiner reconciles the loss of his father and challenges the power of the creatures of the sea in Daniel Kraus’s novel 'Whalefall.’

EVANSTON, Ill. — Daniel Kraus has a long tattoo of a sperm whale on his left arm. He got it last spring, to anticipate the breaching of “Whalefall,” his latest

EVANSTON, Ill. — Daniel Kraus has a long tattoo of a sperm whale on his left arm. He got it last spring, to anticipate the breaching of “Whalefall,” his latest novel, which is his 21st and his best. He is that confident about “Whalefall,” and, probably, he should be. He lives in Evanston and grew up in Iowa, and until he began researching “Whalefall” in late 2020, he didn’t know a beluga from ...

Daniel Kraus has a long tattoo of a sperm whale on his left arm. He got it last spring, to anticipate the breaching of “Whalefall,” his latest novel, which is his 21st and his best. He is that confident about “Whalefall,” and, probably, he should be. He lives in Evanston and grew up in Iowa, and until he began researching “Whalefall” in late 2020, he didn’t know a beluga from a barn. But ...