Idaho

Emily Ruskovich

ISBN 10: 0099593955 / ISBN 13: 9780099593959

Published by Random House LCC US, 2018

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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. But then something unimaginably shocking happens. **WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD** 'I love Idaho' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession 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 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. 'Unflinching.multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 'A puzzle that enthrals from the outset' Guardian 'Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you've put it down' Evening Standard, Books of the Year; Puntgaaf en onberispelijk exemplaar, geschikt als cadeau.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Idaho
• Publisher: Random House LCC US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099593955
• ISBN 13: 9780099593959
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
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Synopsis

**WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD**

‘I love Idaho’ Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession

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 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.

‘Unflinching…multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating’ Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

‘A puzzle that enthrals from the outset’ Guardian

‘Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you’ve put it down’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year

About the Author

Emily Ruskovich grew up in the mountains of northern Idaho. She graduated from the University of Montana and received an MA in English from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was the 2011–2012 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, One Story, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She was a 2015 winner of the O. Henry Award for her story “Owl.”
From the Hardcover edition.