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The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)

by Brandon Schrand

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ISBN13: 9780803217690
ISBN10: 0803217692
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In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew themselves it was home, a place they desperately tried to hold on to and yet, after seventeen years of living there, the very place from which they wanted to escape.
 
Growing up under its leaking roof, Brandon R. Schrand watched a cast of broken characters pass through the hotel doors—an alcoholic artist, a forgotten boxing champ, an ex-con, a homeless family—and tried to find his own identity among those revolving faces. Haunted by a father he had never seen, he tested the faces of those drifters for familiarity. Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, The Enders Hotel reveals the promises and warnings of western boomtown life—stories of alcoholism, murder, betrayal, hope, and finally, redemption.

About the Author

Brandon R. Schrand is the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Idaho. His work has appeared in such periodicals as The Utne Reader, Tin House, Green Mountains Review, Colorado Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, and other journals.

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dporter, January 1, 2011 (view all comments by dporter)
This author, in the tradition of our great Western writers Craig Lesley, Molly Gloss and Tracy Daugherty, brings the story of a small town and its inhabitants sharply into our focus.

Schrand has a way of making his experiences relevant, and the story has a memorable style. The landscape plays a key role and is much like a character. The story is painfully self-aware; his boyhood struggles and triumphs become ours, along with the ever-present thread that these wonderful days are passing too quickly and will soon be gone.

I loved this book, and months later, I still recall its beauty.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780803217690
Subtitle:
A Memoir
Author:
Schrand, Brandon
Author:
Schrand, Brandon R.
Publisher:
Bison Books
Subject:
BIO026000
Subject:
Hotelkeepers
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
United States - State & Local - West
Subject:
Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
Subject:
Regional Subjects - West
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Schrand, Brandon R - Childhood and youth
Subject:
Schrand, Brandon R - Family
Subject:
World History-General
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Publication Date:
20080501
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
238
Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 in 0.65 pd

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