Northernmost

Northernmost

By Peter Geye

ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE 'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of Wintering a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love. A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel. "--Nathan Hill, author of The Nix In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway.

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Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Publish Date: 09/14/2020
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780525655756
ISBN-10: 0525655751
Language: English

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ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of Wintering a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love. A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel."--Nathan Hill, author of The Nix

In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. His wife, Inger, stunned to see him alive, is slow to warm back up to him, having spent many sleepless nights convinced she had lost both him and their daughter, Thea, who traveled to America two years earlier but has yet to send even a single letter back to them in Hammerfest, their small Norwegian town at the top of the earth. More than a century later, Greta Nansen has finally begun to admit to herself that her marriage is over. Desperately unhappy and unfulfilled, she makes the decision to follow her husband from their home in Minnesota to Oslo, where he has traveled for work, to end it once and for all. But on impulse, she diverts her travels to Hammerfest: the town of her ancestors, the town where her great-great-grandmother Thea was born--and for some reason never returned to. Braiding together two remarkable stories of love and survival, Northernmost wades into the darkest recesses of the human heart and celebrates the remarkable ability of humans to endure nearly unimaginable trials.

About the Author

Peter Geye received his M. F. A. from the University of New Orleans and his Ph. D. from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast.

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