Synopses & Reviews
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. 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.
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"One of those rare novels that takes hold of your imagination and your heart and does not let go." Aryn Kyle, author of The God of Animals
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"Starred Review. [An] eerie, elegiac debut.... The tales he tells Stephen--of golden caribou, malevolent wood spirits, and a winter that lasted so long it buried the town in snow until July--are woven in so seamlessly that the reader never questions their validity. The rugged wilderness is captured exquisitely, as is Stephen's uncommon childhood, and despite a narrative rife with tragedy, Zentner's elegant prose keeps the story buoyant." Publishers Weekly
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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.
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"A sublime haunting, a ripping yarn, and a killer debut."--J. Robert Lennon
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About the Author
Alexi Zentner is the author of Touch, which was published in a dozen countries. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, Touch was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Zentner's fiction has been featured in The Atlantic and Tin House. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his family.