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Idaho

Idaho

by EmilyRuskovich (Author), Emily Ruskovich (Author)

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Synopsis

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08 Feb 2018
ISBN 10: 0099593955
ISBN 13: 9780099593959
Book Overview: Opening with an act of inexplicable violence, Idaho is a stunning debut about loss, grief and redemption

Media Reviews
Writing that has the cool sharpness of lemonade... Unflinching, unfrilly, multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating -- Rachel Joyce
Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you've put it down * Evening Standard, Books of the Year *
You're in masterly hands here... will remind many of the great Idaho novel, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping... wrenching and beautiful * New York Times Book Review *
From the first page it is clear that Ruskovich's poetic, spare writing would be enough to compel on its own, but this extraordinary story of a violent event that decimates a young family in northern Idaho is the true engine here. It's a puzzle that enthrals from the outset. -- Lucy Clark * Guardian *
It's a set-up that reads straight out of the darkest of psychological thrillers ... That an act of such brutality inspires storytelling as beautiful as this is reason enough for this debut novel to stand out from the crowd * Independent *
Author Bio
Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, on Hoodoo mountain. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story and the Virginia Quarterly Review. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she now teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado, Denver. Idaho is her first novel.