North Sun, or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther is the 2025 debut novel of author Ethan Rutherford. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Plot In 1878 Massachusetts, the whaler Arnold Lovejoy is tasked with searching for a lost whaling ship and its captain, Benjamin Leander.
Reception In a starred review of North Sun, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "following a couple of well-received story collections, Rutherford makes an audacious leap as a novelist." References