A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte, who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family, tracing a journey across the southern island that takes us full circle. Australian fiction -- 21st century. | Grief -- Fiction. | Fishers -- Fiction. | Families -- Tasmania -- Fiction. | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. | Tasmania -- Fiction. | Australian