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Idaho / Emily Ruskovich.

By: Publication details: London : Chatto & Windus, 2017.Description: 308 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780701189099
  • 9780701189082
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
Awards:
  • Winner 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.
Summary: Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho. With her husband's memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. Through multiple perspectives we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, as Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew-- and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded General Fiction
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Adventure RUS Available 065847
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Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho. With her husband's memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. Through multiple perspectives we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, as Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew-- and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own.

Winner 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

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