ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the acclaimed author of Wintering a thrilling ode to the spirit
of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love.
"A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel."--Nathan Hill, author of
The Nix
In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the
Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. His wife, Inger,
stunned to see him alive, is slow to warm back up to him, having spent
many sleepless nights convinced she had lost both him and their
daughter, Thea, who traveled to America two years earlier but has yet to
send even a single letter back to them in Hammerfest, their small
Norwegian town at the top of the earth.
More than a century later, Greta Nansen has finally begun to admit to
herself that her marriage is over. Desperately unhappy and unfulfilled,
she makes the decision to follow her husband from their home in
Minnesota to Oslo, where he has traveled for work, to end it once and
for all. But on impulse, she diverts her travels to Hammerfest: the town
of her ancestors, the town where her great-great-grandmother Thea was
born--and for some reason never returned to. Braiding together two
remarkable stories of love and survival, Northernmost wades into the
darkest recesses of the human heart and celebrates the remarkable
ability of humans to endure nearly unimaginable trials.
