I don't know how to rate this novel. I really don't. The writing? 5 out of 5. The author has an exquisite, lyrical style that pulls you into the story from the very first sentence. I couldn't stop reading, even when I became thoroughly frustrated with how things were unfolding (more on that later...
This book is from Kim Barnes at the University of Idaho who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for another novel in 1997. At first I was depressed as I began reading it because there is alot that is depressing about the storyline and there are several tragedies throughout the book. I did, howe...
I first read In the Wilderness when I was in high school. I remember being thrilled to be reading a book that was a coming of age story about a girl who grew up in Idaho - just like me! And I was profoundly inspired and for a brief time decided I would be a writer too. That didn't exactly last, b...
The Bayliner, a Confederate flag pegged to its bow, shouldered in against the wind slap, its outboard churning due east. It was the same red speedboat I had seen in the photo of the Bodeens—the Arabesque—maybe inherited, like Ruthie said, one more thing left behind. “Twin Mercs,” Lucky had boaste...
MY MOTHER once said to me, “what has happened in the past.” But without that map, I cannot find my beginnings, trace the progress of my own journey. I must circle back, pick up the threads that bind me to the lives of my parents, in order to understand what brought us to that place in the woods, ...
The small dwellings south of the tracks housed company workers—those who felled, hauled, scaled and processed the timber. North of the tracks, behind the Headquarters store, a wooden stairway led up to the Circle, where the road threaded between the shop buildings and store before looping back on...