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Milkweed Editions
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 1571310789
EAN: 9781571310781
Kindle: B005EFWT5K
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Fiction Family Life
We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might
learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not
always those we are taught . . . So begins Matthew Garth’s story of the fall of 1962, when
the shooting of a young woman on Thanksgiving Day sets off a
chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota.
Matthew first sees Louisa Lindahl in Dr. Dunbar’s home
office, and at the time her bullet wound makes nearly as
strong an impression as her unclothed body. Fueled over the
following weeks by his feverish longing for this mysterious
woman—as well as by a deep desire for the comfort and
affluence that appears to surround the Dunbars—Matthew finds
himself drawn into a series of confrontations he never
expected, the results of which will change his life
irrevocably and give lie to his version of the American dream. Immersive, heartbreaking, and richly evocative of time and
place, this long-awaited new novel marks the return of a
great American storyteller.
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