Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
Schedule
Sat Jun 15 2024 at 01:00 am
UTC+00:00Location
Village Books in Fairhaven | Bellingham, WA
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Village Books is thrilled to welcome back bestselling author Leif Enger back to the Readings Gallery for I Cheerfully Refuse!I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers,
and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.
"The transcendent latest from Enger (Peace Like a River) is at once a
dystopian love story, a nautical adventure, and a meditation on loss,
kindness, and natural beauty . . . This captivating narrative brims
with hope."— Publishers Weekly, starred review
Leif Enger grew up in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel Peace Like a River, which won the Booksense Award for Fiction and was named one of the Year's Best Books by Time Magazine and the LA Times. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national bestseller. It was a Midwest Booksellers Honor Book, and won the High Plains Book Award for Fiction. His third novel, Virgil Wander, was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Library Journal, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public Library. He lives with his wife Robin in Duluth, MN.
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Where is it happening?
Village Books in Fairhaven, 1200 11th St,Bellingham,WA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
