Driftless
(By David Rhodes)
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Featuring a “deeply engrossing performance” from an Earphones Award–winning narrator who is “top-notch” (AudioFile): Although the small town of Words, Wisconsin, can’t be found on a map, it’s home to residents whose lives are eccentric, charming, and relatable. An “encompassing and incisive, comedic and profound” novel (Booklist starred review) from a “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune).
Driftless is an unforgettable story of contemporary life in rural America. Words, Wisconsin, home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters.
Among them, a middle-aged couple guards the family farm from the mendacious schemes of their milk cooperative; a lifelong invalid finds herself crippled by her resentment of and her affection for her sister; a woman of conflicting impulses and pastor of the local Friends Church stumbles upon an enlightenment she never expected; a cantankerous retiree discovers a cougar living in his haymow, haunting him like a childhood memory; and a former drifter forever alters the ties that bind a community together.
At once intimate and funny, wise and generous, Driftless marks the triumphant return of a significant American writer.”
