From NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE and FLANNERY O'CONNOR
AWARD WINNER Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the
turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders
"A beautiful novel, quiet as a snowfall, warm as a glowing wood
stove...Admirers of Marilynne Robinson and Alice Munro are bound to
appreciate." --NPR
"Spare and exquisite, tough and lovely. The sentences build on
themselves, becoming expansive and staggering in their sweep." --The
New York Times Book Review
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose
Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to
marry, days later, they are more in love with the promise of
homesteading than anything. For Lawrence, his parcel of 150 acres is an
opportunity to finally belong in a world that has never delivered on its
promise. For Marie, the land is an escape from the empty future she sees
spinning out before her, and a risky bet is better than none at all. But
over the next few years, as they work the land in an attempt to secure a
deed to their homestead, they must face everything they don't know about
each other. As the Territory of Alaska moves toward statehood and
inexorable change, can Marie and Lawrence create something new, or will
they break apart trying?
Immersive and wild-hearted, joyfully alive to both the intimate and the
elemental, Homestead is an unflinching portrait of a new state and of
the hard-fought, hard-bitten work of making a family.
