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Idaho

Idaho

A Novel

by Emily Ruskovich
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/03/2017

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*Longlisted 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.

ISBN:
9780701189082
9780701189082
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-03-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
222x144x30mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Emily Ruskovich

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.

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