Book Club: Whalefall

Schedule

Wed Sep 24 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

St. James School | Philadelphia, PA

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Come along as we venture into the belly of the beast (literally!) with Daniel Kraus's WHALEFALL at our September book club meeting.
About this Event

Join us for coffee, conversation, and community as we discuss Daniel Kraus's bestseller Whalefall on Wednesday, September 24 at 1:00pm. Ranked one of the best thrillers of 2023 by The New York Times and soon to be a major motion picture starring Oscar nominee Josh Brolin, Whalefall is a "viscerally intense and claustropobic" thriller that is "full of cinematic and wild suspense" (Library Journal). Available wherever books are sold and from the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is a “powerfully humane” (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life…only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

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St. James School, 3217 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphia, United States

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