![]() ![]() Alice and Atile'i subsequently form an unlikely friendship that helps each of them come to terms with what they have lost. But her plans are interrupted by a violent storm that causes the trash vortex to collide with the Taiwanese coast, bringing Atile'i along with it. Alice is so distraught that she decides to end her own life. ![]() Her husband and son are missing, having disappeared while hiking in the mountains near their home. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a college professor, is overcome with grief. ![]() His chances seem slim, but just as it appears that hope is lost, Atile'i comes across a sprawling trash vortex floating in the ocean and climbs onto it. Following the custom of his people, he is set adrift as a sacrifice to the Sea God but, unlike those who have gone before him, Atile'i is determined to defy precedent and survive. The Man with the Compound Eyesbegins with a pretty bleak outlook for the first characters that are introduced. The plot is nominally based around two characters: Atile'i, a 15-year-old boy who lives on an untouched island in the South Pacific, and Alice Shih, an academic and writer who is considering. When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people-an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide-are united in ways they never could have imagined.įifteen-year-old Atile'i-a native of Wayo Wayo, an island somewhere in the Pacific-has come of age. ![]()
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