The Whole Singing Ocean is a poetic narrative that circles around the central story of a boy and a whale, and the 2013 investigation into the Ecole en bateau, a French countercultural boat school. A story in fragments, built around the true story of a boy's encounter with a whale during his time at the school onboard a boat. Ecole en bateau was based on the ideals of 1968, but also on twisted ideas about child psychology, Foucault and an abolition of the separation between adults and children. The narrative begins with a boat builder (who as a boy attended Ecole en bateau himself) and a whale, and moves on to explore threads of philosophy, memory and various kinds of destruction, fragmentation and wholeness. The text weaves in several voices and threads of rapture and horror, as it explores adventure, childhood, abuse and environmental degradation. This work becomes a self-conscious documenting of the boat builder's story as it unfolds, and as the narrator learns more of what happened and uncovers echoes from her own life and family history. Her discoveries cause the narrative to take some unexpected, and at times resisted, turns.