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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Emma Hooper
Simon & Schuster
January 2015
On Sale: January 20, 2015
ISBN: 1476755671
EAN: 9781476755670
Kindle: B00JYDKXEW
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Fiction | Contemporary
A gorgeous literary debut about unlikely heroes, lifelong
promises, and last great adventures. Otto, The letter began, in blue ink, I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there.
Don’t worry, I’ve left you the truck. I can walk. I
will try to remember to come back. Yours (always), Etta. Otto finds the note left by his wife in the kitchen of their
farmhouse in windswept Saskatchewan. Eighty-three-year-old
Etta will be walking 3,200 kilometers to see the ocean, but
somehow, Otto understands. He took his own journey once
before, to fight in a faraway land. With Etta gone, Otto struggles with his demons of war, while
their friend Russell initially pursues the woman he has
loved from afar. And James—well, James you have to meet on the page. Moving from the hot and dry present of a quiet Canadian farm
to a dusty, burnt past of hunger, war, and passion, from
trying to remember to trying to forget, Etta and Otto and
Russell and James is an astounding literary debut about
friendship and love, hope and honor, and the romance of
last—great—adventures.
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