Time Pebbles

De: Jerry Merritt

Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith

Tekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.

Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years. As Ka Li survives fierce predators and scarce resources, she leaves behind a series of signal cairns to help Tekla find her.

Skipping forward 60,000 years, Helen Ryland, a mid-20th century archaeologist, unearths one of Ka Li’s surviving signal cairns and realizes she has found trace of people who populated the Americas even before the Clovis culture. Helen’s detective work tracking Ka Li’s timeless signals across the Alaskan wilderness now intertwines with Ka Li’s story. As Helen solves the puzzle of the signal cairns she finds universal fame and suffers devastating misfortune. In the end, Helen discovers that science in isolation cannot answer all of her questions for Tekla’s devotion to Ka Li had not died even though 600 centuries had passed.

©2014 Jerry Merritt (P)2018 Podium Publishing

Elegant parallels

Engaging from start to finish Jerry Merritt does it again. Like his last book there's a point where it seems that two sets of story points have wandered too far afield to ever meet up again and then he does his writerly magic and brings it on home to a satisfying and emotionally compelling conclusion.

Thoroughly enjoyed

A most unusual story involving time. No discussions of time- and yet there are two distinct time flows that eventually connect in unexpected ways. This is surrounded by a really creative and compassionate imagining of humans as we were a long long time ago - like the Pleistocene. Well done and well read.

It's so good! I look forward to more!

Great story, great storytelling and good narration. I listened to this book after enjoying his other book. I think he's a really good author and I hope he has more on the way!

Great book. Loved the story.

This was a wonderful book that took you on an adventure through time. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves archaeology and mystery. The ending was wonderful and I am looking for a sequel hopefully.

What a story !

I enjoy the way that they mixed the 1st nation events and modern examples but the ending was unreal