Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult
bestseller And the Birds Rained Down
A journey as geographical as it is interior... a bumpy route, but one
punctuated by contemplative pleasures, by small, lost joys...
Simultaneously introspective and captivating, [And Miles to Go Before
I Sleep...] reconnects us to what is essential. --Les Libraires
"Nostalgic and beautifully grotesque, this novel is delightfully baroque
and, although short, so striking it simply will never leave you." --The
Coast, on And the Birds Rained Down
Cleaving closely to the award-winning Jocelyne Saucier novel on which
it's based, this eco-friendly, elegantly delivered tale about the sunset
changes in the lives of a trio of graybeards living in the woods is
engaging, thought-provoking and ultimately moving. -The Hollywood
Reporter, on the film adaptation of And the Birds Rained Down
After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and
freedom (with more than 3,000 Goodreads ratings), Jocelyne Saucier is
back with this unsettling story about a woman's disappearance.
Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her
life on her own terms. And so, one September morning, she leaves
Swastika, her home of the past fifty years, and hops on the Northlander
train, eager to put thousands of miles of northern Quebec between her
and the improbably named village, and leaving behind her perennially
tormented daughter, Lisana.
Our mysterious narrator, who is documenting these disappearing northern
trains, is on a quest to uncover the truth of Gladys's voyage, tracking
down fellow passengers and train employees to learn what happened to
Gladys and her daughter, and why.
