Idaho - Hardcover

Ruskovich, Emily

 
9780701189082: Idaho

Synopsis

*Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018*

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time.

But then something unimaginably shocking happens, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction.

In a story told from multiple perspectives and in razor-sharp prose, we gradually learn more about this act, and the way its violence, love and memory reverberate through the life of every character in Idaho.

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About the Author

EMILY RUSKOVICH's critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and won the Dublin Literary Award. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her writing has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, the Guardian, Zoetrope and One Story. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she teaches fiction. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children. Nightjar is her second book.

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