Larry the Penguin Searches for the Meaning of Life

Larry is a young penguin on a secret quest for the meaning of life that teams up with a lost polar bear named Marsha who has walked halfway around the world searching for her destiny. Captured by a scientist the unusual pair is transported to a zoo in Alaska where the scientist’s dying six-year-old son frees them from captivity and joins their search. Readers are taken on an often humorous yet deeply philosophical satirical iconoclastic emotional and sure to be controversial adventure leading to the discovery of the Round Song and the secret of life. This unusual novel isn’t for children. Orbiting the story of Larry’s search for life’s meaning are a tragedy at sea cynical religious leaders a beauty queen a late night ride in a hearse behind a coffin a dead war hero a police investigation a married couple’s mutual betrayal wolves howling at the moon Santa Claus revealing the secret of reality a ghostly little girl the death of a child a suicide and a song that prevents the universe from