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Southeaster by Haroldo Conti, translated by Jon Lindsay Miles Over a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Parana, cutting reeds to sell to basket weavers. But when the old man dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for.
With the onset of a mauling winter, something between them snaps.
Elmet by Fiona Mozley Daniel lives a simple life with Daddy and Cathy. They live in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They forage and they hunt. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes, for local men, greedy and watchful, had began to circle like vultures and threaten their home. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
1976: Peggy is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her life is about to change.
Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector. Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure.
Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end of days, takes her to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared…
In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. And they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end…
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If you like this…
…you might like these Midwinter by Fiona Melrose Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are Suffolk farmers, living together on land their family has worked for generations. But they are haunted by a past they have long refused to confront: the death of Cecelia, beloved wife and mother, when Vale was just a child. Both men have carried her loss, unspoken. Until now.
Southeaster by Haroldo Conti, translated by Jon Lindsay Miles Over a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Parana, cutting reeds to sell to basket weavers. But when the old man dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for.
With the onset of a mauling winter, something between them snaps.
Elmet by Fiona Mozley Daniel lives a simple life with Daddy and Cathy. They live in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They forage and they hunt. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes, for local men, greedy and watchful, had began to circle like vultures and threaten their home. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
1976: Peggy is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her life is about to change.
Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector. Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure.
Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end of days, takes her to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared…
In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. And they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end…
Find out more at readinggroups.org…
