by Calli Mulligan (Author)

Abby, Seth, and Frances are teenagers bound by a shared tragedy-a deadly act of environmental protest in their coastal community of Scallop Bay. All three are searching for resolution to their grief. Eighteen months after the bombing that claimed her parents, her grandmother, and her sight, Abby is still haunted by feelings of responsibility for the deaths in her family, while Seth and his sister Frances, after losing their father, are forced to live with their disturbed, narcissistic mother Claudia. While Frances has always been determined to maintain a psychological boundary with Claudia, Seth cannot relinquish his deep longing to be loved by his mother. Introverted, sensitive, and artistically gifted, Seth carries the somatic and psychic scars of his premature birth and has great difficulty negotiating social relationships. Although he possesses a powerful connection to the inner life, he cannot see that his debilitating physical symptoms are emanations of a deep resentment he feels toward his mother.

Using a wide cast of colorful animal and human characters, original animal mythologies, and dream visions, Heartbeat of the Marru is a story of young people struggling to create hope and myth amidst Earth's accelerating ecological crisis, a story of the healing magic that can come to us when we welcome the unconscious mysteries of Nature into our lives.

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