Launching on 3 November, let’s start with Anthony Doerr’s observation: “By turns comic and tragic, [this book] is a sharply-written and brilliantly-paced novel…Funny, charming, infused with tenderness…”
Library Journal: “Incredibly vivid, beautiful, and tragic…a roller coaster of imagery and adventure. Fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and The Stand by Stephen King will enjoy the journey…”
Independent Book Review (Staff Pick): “A nuanced meditation on grief, displacement, and the enduring aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster…”
Visit the author’s website for more info (including book trailer).
Available at Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.
Local launch events
Learn more about the author
Mitch Wieland is the current Idaho Writer in Residence.
He is the author of the novels Willy Slater’s Lane, God’s Dog (Idaho Book of the Year winner), and The Ghosts of Okuma. His story publications include The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Best of the West, and The Kenyon Review. He’s received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Wieland is founding editor of The Idaho Review and co-founder of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University, where he has taught for thirty years.
Recommended read: this recent interview with The Missouri Review
