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Listener abounds with Native stories, Algonquin legend, Indian characters, and heartrending strife set against the Northern Minnesota snowscape. Native mojo and a windigo vision stir up a storm in this adventure. The struggle between domestic commitment and deceit plays out through Tatty Langille, the Mi’kmaq storyteller. His path to save his marriage is anything but typical-events explode in surreal settings, through winter storms, and during tavern brawls in rural Minnesota, weaving Native culture with odd Scandinavian characters. Tatty believes his Mary goes north to midwife a cousin’s twins, but her sudden renewed contact with those far off stinks with suspicion. When family secrets, Ojibwe myth, and murder fuel surprises and twists in Tatty’s search, he is left only with questions. Is Mary the wife he believed her to be? Had her wild rages pointed to a hidden past? Has Tatty lived a lie? Should he run? Can he out-distance his denial and his own buried past? After uncovering Mary’s identity, what will he do? Author’s bio: Tim Jollymore grew up among swamps, forests, and Indian reservations of northern Minnesota, the setting of his first novel. He worked as a tree planter, pulp peeler, local historian, traveling salesman, architectural designer, a contractor, and teacher. Jollymore writes and lives near his family in Northern California, returning to Minnesota in summer. He earned a master’s degree in literature from the University of Minnesota.
Review
Karen Pirnot for??
Reader’s FavoriteI thought it [
Listener in the Snow] was wonderful. I especially liked its large-heartedness…in these days of international horrors, I find myself gravitating to books that lift the spirits but not in a chicken Soup of the Soul way.??
Mary Ann Grossmann
Saint Paul Pioneer Press
May 6, 2015
Listener in the Snow??has been named the Winner in the??General Fiction/Novel??(Under 80,000) words??category of the 2015??Next Generation Indie Book Awards.??
Catherine Goulet, Awards Chair
Awards Chair,??Next Generation Indie Book Awards:
Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group
IndieBookAwards.com
. . . stories of Native American folklore, family dynamics that lead to hardchoices, the consequences of kept secrets, and the value of Nativecustoms. This is a memorable story of love rekindled and truthsrevealed.??
(BookLife)Publisher’s Weekly Listener in the Snow: A Novel, Tim Jollymore, Finns Way Books??– In this riveting tale of the north, the author weaves unfamiliar and diverse strands to craft a surprisingly suspenseful and intriguing novel. The bitter cold of northern Minnesota, the solitary ice fisherman lodged in his darkling hut, the heritage and ambivalence of the Algonquin peoples as they mingle, often tragically, with the rest of us, the contrast of a comfortable busy life in Pensacola to a simple pure one in the forested north–these and other elements flow naturally into the story. The book is temporally layered, told retrospectively as a tale recounted in an ice house to a brother-in-law on frozen Thief Lake. It is intellectually layered as the author moves about seamlessly from simple story, to existential reflection, to gripping, totemistic Algonquin spirituality. Best of all it is a very human story as a secret past unhinges Tatty and Mary’s marriage and carries them on a journey unexpected and dreadful. The US Review of Books??on occasion of??Listener‘s recognition at the Eric Hoffer Awards, June 1, 2017About the Author
Product details
- Publisher : pan>??Finns Way Books (June 16, 2014)
- Language : pan>??English
- Paperback : pan>??318 pages
- ISBN-10 : pan>??0991476301
- ISBN-13 : pan>??978-0991476305
- Item Weight : pan>??12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : pan>??5.25 x 0.71 x 8 inches
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