Touch

by Alexi Zentner Narrated by Norman Dietz

Overview

In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Stephen, a pastor, is at home on the eve of his mother's funeral, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned to the town in search of his beloved but long-dead wife. And like his grandfather, Stephen is forced to confront the losses of his past. Touch introduces you to a world where monsters and witches oppose singing dogs and golden caribou, where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer. Nominated for the Governor General Literary Award.

Editorial Reviews

Elizabeth Hand

…Stephen's grandfather, Jeannot, [is] one of the more remarkable and original characters in recent fiction, a figure who suggests Paul Bunyan as imagined by Gabriel Garcia Marquez…Touch is a lovely debut, at once dreamy and riveting, like a heavy snowfall watched from a vantage point safe indoors, beside a blazing fire.
—The Washington Post

From the Publisher

"In this often-haunting debut, fire and ice, light and shadow, death and resurrection intersect. . . . Here the wilderness, of the woods as well as the soul, is a place with which to be reckoned, and the strongest of men and women can fashion from it a life of mythological proportion and beauty."— Susan Thurston Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"A lovely debut, at once dreamy and riveting, like a heavy snowfall watched from a vantage point safe indoors, besides a blazing fire."— Elizabeth Hand Washington Post

PAPERBACK COMMENTARY

2011 Governor General's Literary Award, Short-listed
2011 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Short-listed

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175575683
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	04/04/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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