thriller

National bestseller Doug Abrams delivers a captivating ecological thriller about a marine biologist whose fate is altered after the unexpected appearance of a humpback whale sends National bestseller Doug Abrams on a race to discover the meaning of the meaning's mysterious song and the meaning's implications for human survival.

sci-fi/fantasy

It's sci-fi/fantasy and definitely eerie, though definitely eerie may have less of a focus on the sea itself and more on creatures found in the sea (Kraken, non-Disney mermaid etc.).

a gentle tale of two elderly sisters, Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish) and Libby Strong (Bette Davis)

Set on an island off the coast of Maine circa the mid-1950s, The Whales of August is a gentle tale of two elderly sisters, Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish) and Libby Strong (Bette Davis), vacationing in their summer home.

a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters

The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters.

romance

The story is a romance but also documents whaling in such an informative moving way.

mythological story

The story has very distinct theme of sea adventures and, as The story is a mythological story, there are also included some elements of fantasy.

fictionalised

The story is a fictionalised account of two separate historical events: the rescue of an 8 year old boy from the jaws of a tiger by menagerie-owner Charles Jamrach and the wreck of the Essex, a whaleship sunk by a sperm whale whose survivors drew straws to decide who would be eaten.

sea adventure

This sea adventure tells the story of Captain Ahab and Herman Melville's hunt for the mighty and ferocious white whale.