Northern Lights: A Novel

A stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s-"a powerful depiction of the currency of intolerance and addiction in one small town" (Kirkus Reviews)-about an androgynous youth who arrives in Minnesota, searching for the mother who abandoned him as a child.

On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only a few changes of clothes, an old Nintendo, and a few dollars to his name. Reeling from the death of his father, Shane wants to find the mother ...