Wander - Softcover

Tobias, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597099899 ISBN 13: 9781597099899

Publisher: Boreal Books, 2016

Synopsis

Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska (a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000), Wander is the story of Patrice "Pete" Nash, a young broadcast reporter who finds herself facing the winter alone after her husband, Nate, accepts a job on "the slope." As Pete pursues the next big breaking news story, she strikes up a friendship with the new guy in town, the Ivy League-educated Ren, who recites poetry and lives in the family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship offers a glimpse of a different kind of life-one that seems to Pete to offer everything marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown to Pete, Ren has come to Alaska for his own dark reason-to end his life. By the time, Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed. One man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.

About this title

Review:

"From the beginning, a sense of foreboding jumps from the pages of "Wander." It's there, right off the bat, in the second paragraph, introducing one of the important characters, Ren: "And he wanted to die."'

Mim Swartz, The Denver Post

Wander is a compact but fully packed story, a simple but heartbreaking tale of a woman caught to her dismay between two very different men in a harsh landscape. It's told with sharp, spot-on dialogue and efficient characterizations - unsurprisingly, given that Tobias once wrote for The Oregonian and the Rocky Mountain News."

Amy Wang, The Oregonian

About the Author:

Lori Tobias left her Pennsylvania hometown at 18 for a brief visit with her Air Force-enlisted sister in Alaska. She stayed eight years, studying journalism at the University of Alaska and marrying her husband Chan in an A-frame church with a view of Denali. She has since lived in Connecticut, Washington, Southern Oregon and Colorado. In her 25-years in journalism, she worked as a columnist and feature writer for the "Rocky Mountain News," and covered the Oregon Coast as a staff writer for" The Oregonian." She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She currently lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and shelter rescue Mugsy.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Boreal Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1597099899
• ISBN 13: 9781597099899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152