Binding: Paperback
Description: From National BOOK Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and Flannery O Connor Award Winner Melinda Moustakis a debut novel set in Alaska about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders" A beautiful novel quiet as a snowfall warm as a glowing wood stove. Admirers of Marilynne Robinson and Alice Munro are bound to appreciate." - NPR" Spare and exquisite tough and lovely. The sentences build on themselves becoming expansive and staggering in their sweep." - The New York Times Book Review Anchorage 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry days later they are more in love with the prospect of homesteading than anything else. For Lawrence his parcel of 150 acres is an opportunity to finally belong in a world that has never delivered on its promise. For Marie the land is an escape from the empty future she sees spinning out before her and a risky bet is better than none at all. But over the next few years as they work the land in an attempt to secure a deed to their homestead they must face everything they don't know about each other. As the Territory of Alaska moves toward statehood and inexorable change can Marie and Lawrence create something new or will they break apart trying? Immersive and wild - hearted joyfully alive to both the intimate and the elemental Homestead is an unflinching portrait of a new state and of the hard - fought hard - bitten work of making a family.
Title: Homestead A Novel
Author(s): Moustakis Melinda
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250845573
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/27/2024
Category: Historical Fiction