**WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD**‘I loveIdaho’ Paula Hawkins, bestselling author ofThe Girl on the TrainThis sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsessionOne 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.‘Unflinching...multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating’ Rachel Joyce, author ofThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry‘A puzzle that enthrals from the outset’Guardian‘Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you’ve put it down’Evening Standard, Books of the Year

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Emily Ruskovich

Random House, Incorporated

Modern Library

Harmony Books

United States, United States of America

First edition., New York State, 2017

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LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss—from O. Henry Prize–winning author Emily RuskovichWINNER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD • WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho, where they are bound together by more than love. With her husband's memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. In a story written in exquisite prose and told from multiple perspectives—including Ann, Wade, and Jenny, now in prison—we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, of the love and compassion that brought Ann and Wade together, and of the memories that reverberate through the lives of every character in Idaho.In a wild emotional and physical landscape, Wade's past becomes the center of Ann's imagination, as Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew—and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own.FINALIST FOR: International Dylan Thomas Prize • Edgar First Novel Award • Young Lions Fiction Award “You know you're in masterly hands here. [Emily] Ruskovich's language is itself a consolation, as she subtly posits the troubling thought that only decency can save us.... Ruskovich's novel will remind many readers of the great Idaho novel, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping.... [A] wrenching and beautiful book.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors'Choice)“Sensuous, exquisitely crafted.”—The Wall Street Journal“The first thing you should know about Idaho, the shatteringly original debut by O. Henry Prize winner Emily Ruskovich, is that it upturns everything you think you know about story.... You could read Idaho just for the sheer beauty of the prose, the expert way Ruskovich makes everything strange and yet absolutely familiar.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Mesmerizing... [an] eerie story about what the heart is capable of fathoming and what the hand is capable of executing.”—Marie Claire“Idaho is a wonderful debut. Ruskovich knows how to build a page-turner from the opening paragraph.”—Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

"A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss. Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho, where they are bound together by more than love. With her husband's memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. In a story written in exquisite prose and told from multiple perspectives -- including Ann, Wade, and Jenny, now in prison -- we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, of the love and compassion that brought Ann and Wade together, and of the memories that reverberate through the lives of every character. In a wild emotional and physical landscape, Wade's past becomes the center of Ann's imagination, as Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew -- and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own."-- Amazon

A stunning debut novel about love, memory, and an act of violence that reverberates through one family for decades
Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged terrain in northern Idaho, where they are bound together by more than love. Wade's past is the center of Ann's imagination, especially as the memories that haunt Wade begin to disappear inside of his illness. In a wild emotional and physical landscape, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew—and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own.
In this startling and beautiful novel, written in exquisite prose and told from multiple perspectives—including Ann, Wade, and Jenny, now serving a life sentence in prison—we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, of...

O.Henry Prize-winner Emily Ruskovich tells the story of a woman piecing together the mystery of what happened to a family. Idaho is a debut novel about love, forgiveness, and memory—the violence of memory, and the equal violence of its loss.
Ann and Wade have carved out a living for themselves from a rugged landscape, but they are bound together by more than love. In a story told from multiple perspectives—Ann, Wade, Wade’s first wife Jenny, now in prison for murder—and in exquisite, razor-sharp prose, we gradually learn of the shocking act that originally brought Ann and Wade together, and which reverberates through the lives of every character in Idaho.

Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho. With her husband's memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. Through multiple perspectives we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, as Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew-- and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own

A Tale Told From Multiple Perspectives Traces The Complicated Relationship Between Ann And Wade On A Rugged Landscape And How They Came Together In The Aftermath Of His First Wife's Imprisonment For A Violent Murder. Emily Ruskovich.

2017-04-02