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Leif Enger
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A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River, which sold more than a million copies and captured audiences’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s body of work.
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.
I Cheerfully Refuse epitomizes the “musical, sometimes magical and deeply satisfying kind of storytelling” (Los Angeles Times) for which Leif Enger is cherished. A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, this latest novel is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.
“A heart-racing ballad of escape, shot-through with villainy and dignity, humor and music. Like Mark Twain, Enger gives us a full accounting of the human soul, scene by scene, wave by wave.”—Josh Ritter, singer and author of The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
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The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy (a hero to some, a cold-blooded murderer to others) escapes from his cell, and the Lands set out in search of him. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and they cover territory even more extraordinary than the Badlands, where they search for Davy from their Airstream trailer.
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Poetic Coming Of Age Story
- De Menno en 06-11-08
De: Leif Enger
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself.
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Good, Enjoyable
- De spencerm en 12-14-08
De: Leif Enger
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Virgil Wander
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives, but his language and memory are altered, and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.
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Not a Minnesota Accent
- De Caritas en 10-09-18
De: Leif Enger
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When the World Tips Over
- De: Jandy Nelson
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
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The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head. Years ago, the Fall kids’ father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces.
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Just a great book!!
- De denise chaney en 11-12-24
De: Jandy Nelson
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
- A Novel
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Olivia Vinall, Elif Shafak
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory.
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I am 81 years old. Profoundly moved from this book. Plan to get my first tattoo.
- De mary e hennessy en 10-21-24
De: Elif Shafak
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Comeback
- A Gun Pedersen Novel
- De: Leif Enger, Lin Enger
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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***NOMINATED FOR AN EDGAR AWARD*** In the midst of substantial personal loss and scandal, six-foot-six Gunsten Søren Pedersen, the Detroit Tigers’ worshipped, veteran fence-swinger, walked away from his career and sport that he loved. Retiring to the tranquil solitude of Minnesota’s North Woods, disgraced, Gun left behind disappointed fans and searing press coverage. But a millionaire real estate investor is out to tear up Gun’s new turf. Loon Country Attractions, to be built on Gun’s piece of paradise, comes replete with an amusement park, convention center, and shopping super-...
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- De KHK en 02-14-25
De: Leif Enger, y otros
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Peace Like a River
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: Chad Lowe
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy (a hero to some, a cold-blooded murderer to others) escapes from his cell, and the Lands set out in search of him. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and they cover territory even more extraordinary than the Badlands, where they search for Davy from their Airstream trailer.
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Poetic Coming Of Age Story
- De Menno en 06-11-08
De: Leif Enger
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In 1915 Minnesota, Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives a simple life with his loving wife and whipsmart son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself.
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Good, Enjoyable
- De spencerm en 12-14-08
De: Leif Enger
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Virgil Wander
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives, but his language and memory are altered, and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.
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Not a Minnesota Accent
- De Caritas en 10-09-18
De: Leif Enger
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When the World Tips Over
- De: Jandy Nelson
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
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The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head. Years ago, the Fall kids’ father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces.
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Just a great book!!
- De denise chaney en 11-12-24
De: Jandy Nelson
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
- A Novel
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Olivia Vinall, Elif Shafak
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory.
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I am 81 years old. Profoundly moved from this book. Plan to get my first tattoo.
- De mary e hennessy en 10-21-24
De: Elif Shafak
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Comeback
- A Gun Pedersen Novel
- De: Leif Enger, Lin Enger
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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***NOMINATED FOR AN EDGAR AWARD*** In the midst of substantial personal loss and scandal, six-foot-six Gunsten Søren Pedersen, the Detroit Tigers’ worshipped, veteran fence-swinger, walked away from his career and sport that he loved. Retiring to the tranquil solitude of Minnesota’s North Woods, disgraced, Gun left behind disappointed fans and searing press coverage. But a millionaire real estate investor is out to tear up Gun’s new turf. Loon Country Attractions, to be built on Gun’s piece of paradise, comes replete with an amusement park, convention center, and shopping super-...
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- De KHK en 02-14-25
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Fire Exit
- De: Morgan Talty
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of Roger and Mary raising their only child, Elizabeth from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there’s always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from this family and the rest of the tribal community. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.
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Wonderful story about love, family , truth and deception and identity
- De ReallyNelie en 06-23-24
De: Morgan Talty
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The Other Valley
- A Novel
- De: Scott Alexander Howard
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present.
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Narrator whispers the story
- De KJH en 03-08-24
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The Blueprint
- A Novel
- De: Rae Giana Rashad
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Solenne Bonet lives in Texas where choice no longer exists. An algorithm determines a Black woman’s occupation, spouse, and residence. Solenne finds solace in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who’d been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. But history repeats itself when Solenne, lonely and naïve, finds herself entangled with Bastien Martin, a high-ranking government official. Solenne finds the psychological bond unbearable, so she considers alternatives. With Henriette as her guide, she must decide whether and how to leave behind all she knows.
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Incredible, wrenching story
- De msowen en 03-10-24
De: Rae Giana Rashad
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The Boys of Riverside
- A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
- De: Thomas Fuller
- Narrado por: Thomas Fuller
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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In November 2021, an obscure email from the California Department of Education landed in New York Times reporter, Thomas Fuller’s, inbox. The football team at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, a state-run school with only 168 high school students, was having an undefeated season. After years of covering war, wildfires, pandemic, and mass shootings, Fuller was captivated by the story of this group of high school boys. It was uplifting. During the pandemic’s gloom, it was a happy story. It was a sports story but not an ordinary one.
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Feel Good Story
- De Yasmine en 09-03-24
De: Thomas Fuller
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The Familiar
- A Novel
- De: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position.
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The performance was superior!
- De anonymous2812 en 04-14-24
De: Leigh Bardugo
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The Ministry of Time
- A Novel
- De: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrado por: George Weightman, Katie Leung
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
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More than the sum of its parts but…
- De L. Williams en 05-17-24
De: Kaliane Bradley
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- De: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrado por: Billy Merasty
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.
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Really great book!!!
- De Malia en 04-23-19
De: Waubgeshig Rice
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High Divide
- De: Lin Enger
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota’s western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he’s headed. It doesn’t take long for Gretta’s young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, following the scant clues they can find, jumping trains to get where they need to go, and ending up in the rugged badlands of Montana.
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It's a man's world - not a feminist story
- De Leah McKinney en 01-30-18
De: Lin Enger
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Sipsworth
- De: Simon Van Booy
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the English village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss. Helen retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit. Then, one cold autumn night, a chance encounter with an abandoned pet mouse on the street outside her house sets Helen on a surprising journey of friendship.
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A charming antidote for your troubles.
- De Pamela J Wollum en 07-02-24
De: Simon Van Booy
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Reckoning with Power
- Why the Church Fails When It's on the Wrong Side of Power
- De: David E. Fitch
- Narrado por: James R. Cheatham
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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History is clear: Whenever the church has aligned itself with worldly, coercive power, it ends up on the wrong side of important justice issues. But when the church cooperates with God's power through his presence among the least powerful, its witness for Jesus transforms the world into a better place. In Reckoning with Power, David Fitch unpacks the difference between worldly power, or power over others, and God's power, which engages not in coercion but in love, reconciliation, grace, forgiveness, and healing.
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Introductory analysis of power
- De Henrik S Törnblom en 06-27-24
De: David E. Fitch
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- De James en 04-06-24
De: Kaveh Akbar
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The Stardust Grail
- A Novel
- De: Yume Kitasei
- Narrado por: Katharine Chin
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future. Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.
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Pronouns are out of control
- De C P en 09-11-24
De: Yume Kitasei
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- 08-03-24
Fearful future tale
Exciting sailing adventures and danger on Lake Superior, interesting characters , good descriptive writing, but one of favorite characters gets killed off too soon,
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- Sarah
- 06-22-24
Great epic sweet story
An apocalyptic journey told from the perspective of a gentle and kind Everyman. Has elements of cormac McCarthy and the Iliad and maybe a little mad max. Loved it
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- Karlee F.
- 10-21-24
Epic Moving Story
I am so thankful to have found Leif Enger - to have been willingly lost in this epic story - and to emerge wiser, and hopeful, and grateful for the good we have and the need to tend to that good.
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- Bailey Rose
- 08-13-24
Just Ho-Hum for me
***3.5 Stars not Rounded Up *** I realize that I am in the minority here but once again I jumped outside my box trying to broaden my entertainment horizon only to be oh-hum met. This is an another novel where a living person is seeking to “meet up” with a loved one who has passed on to the next world or what have you. I think something happens in the air and these ideas hit many at one time and then we, the readers are inundated with similar storylines. I read this book wanting to like it. I should have liked it. But I didn’t. Maybe it I read it at the wrong point in my life. Okaaayyyyy, I liked it a little. I love the title. LOVE the TITLE. I even like the cover art. And there were moments within that I enjoyed the story. Those moments were far and few between for me though.
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- Samantha
- 06-09-24
beautiful sadness
Frighteningly close to us. Peaceful sadness that still offers hope. Gorgeous cadence while being read.
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- Emily Whitlock
- 09-25-24
Hard to stop listening to
The narrator was excellent and the book was written with such great use of language ….without over doing
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- 01-20-25
Stunning, Poetic
“Probably doomed and perplexingly merry.”
This book had me from the first minute. I found the language poetic and haunting, the narrative complex and poignant, and the character development rich and authentic. Highly recommend!
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- Tamara
- 03-07-25
Transports You
For such dark content, it was so beautifully written that it transports you, but somehow you feel completely relaxed in Rainy’s world amongst the darkness.
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- 06-13-24
Excellent Writing
My issue is not with the writing but more with the all pervasive sadness. The author was able to straddle the depressive atmosphere with moments of brightness but it was not enough to lift the spirit of the book. I suspect that is the point. I didn't need to add moroseness to my book diet. I was fooled by the title. Ultimately I am glad I had no real preconceived expectations of this book. Leif Enger is a masterful wordsmith. The book evoked a lot of feelings for me. I was especially enamored of the book titles referenced throughout, I chuckled heartily at the oblique nod to Steven Sherrill.
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- Happy
- 05-05-24
Dystopian Beauty
Enger’s unique take on the dystopian genre is distinctly his own. The language is lush, the main character warm and authentic,
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