Description: A "cinematic . . . page-turner and a compassionate analysis of faith, memory, responsibility, and consequence."--Molly Antopol, Fiction Writers Review
Brief description: Johanna Skibsrud is the author of The Sentimentalists, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and This Will Be Difficult to Explain, as well as two poetry collections. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Review Quotes: This is a wonderfully original novel. Scenes of extraordinary high drama take place in a realm drawn with great historical accuracy--in prose that marks this fiction with its own unexpected ethereal tint. Skibsrud has talent to burn.--Joan Silber, author of Fools