On the eve of his mother's death, Stephen comes home to Sawgamet, a logging town where the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the dark mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Thirty years after the mythical summer his grandfather returned to town on a quixotic search for his dead wife, Stephen confronts the painful losses in his own life.

About the Author
Alexi Zentner is the author of The Lobster Kings and Touch, which was published in a dozen countries. His fiction has been featured in The Atlantic and Tin House. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his family.

Reviews
"In this often-haunting debut, fire and ice, light and shadow, death and resurrection intersect. . . . Here the wilderness, of the woods as well as the soul, is a place with which to be reckoned, and the strongest of men and women can fashion from it a life of mythological proportion and beauty." -- Susan Thurston - Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A lovely debut, at once dreamy and riveting, like a heavy snowfall watched from a vantage point safe indoors, besides a blazing fire." -- Elizabeth Hand - Washington Post


Awards
Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award 2011 and Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2011.



Book Information
ISBN 9780393342390
Author Alexi Zentner
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 216g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm