Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. 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.īut then Jenny does something unspeakable, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction, and leave dark unanswered questions for years to come. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Henry Prize-winning author Emily Ruskovich. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss - from O. One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Beautifully crafted, emotionally evocative, and psychologically astute, Idaho is one of the best books I have read in a long time. This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession 'Emily Ruskovich has written a poem in prose, a beautiful and intricate homage to place, and a celebration of the defeats and triumphs of love. 'I love Idaho' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo **WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD**
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