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Idaho ‡

Emily Ruskovich

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Idaho won the International Dublin Literary Award. One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time. But then Jenny does something unspeakable, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction, and leave dark unanswered questions for years to come.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781448192557
Topics
Grief and lossFamily tragedyMemory and timeGuilt and redemptionViolence and its aftermath

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