Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into
life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone
in a new country, abandoned and adrift; in the early 1920s, her orphan
son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn't and uses
his best skills to build them their own small ark to escape. But their
pasts travel with them, threatening to capsize even their fragile hope.
In this triumphant new novel, Peter Geye has crafted another deeply
moving tale of a misbegotten family shaped by the rough landscape in
which they live--often at the mercy of wildlife and weather--and by the
rough edges of their own breaking hearts.