I’m once again fortunate enough to have a book find me and sweep me away despite my proclaimed inability to focus. It’s Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse an elegant novel of dystopia, mystery, and literary fiction. It’s a not-so-distant point in America’s future where climate change and political upheaval have erased all familiar landscapes, leaving what was once a network of ... Read More...
Virgil Wander: A Novel by Leif Enger
Greenstone, Minnesota is a hard luck little town. Once known for its taconite mines it has settled into a slow decline when Virgil Wander’s car goes over a cliff and into the lake one night in the midst of an unexpected snowstorm. He’s only alive because the local junkman was on the shore, dove in and saved him, but he suffers brain trauma that leaves him with vertigo, an ... Read More...
