Publisher Description

**Winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction (Literary/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writer's AssociationSet in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice "Pete" Nash, a young broad

Author Biography

Rocky Mountain News, and covered the Oregon Coast as a staff writer for The Oregonian. She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She currently lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and shelter rescue Mugsy.

Review

"From the beginning, a sense of foreboding jumps from the pages of "Wander." It's there, right off the bat, in the second paragraph, introducing one of the important characters, Ren: "And he wanted to die."' Mim Swartz, The Denver PostWander is a compact but fully packed story, a simple but heartbreaking tale of a woman caught to her dismay between two very different men in a harsh landscape. It's told with sharp, spot-on dialogue and efficient characterizations - unsurprisingly, given that Tobias once wrote for The Oregonian and the Rocky Mountain News." Amy Wang, The Oregonian

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"If you are tired of novels about urban yuppies, curl up with Lori Tobias's story, set in oh so very rural Alaska. The only given is, well, it's cold up there; and watch out, you could run into a moose. The story is fresh and fast-moving and Tobias has some interesting things to tell about what people do in situations they fell into by not paying attention." --Sandra Scofield, novelist and author of the memoir Occasions of Sin "Lori Tobias has crafted a compelling narrative of an Alaska where survival is a skill and deceit is an art." --Mark Wolf, author of Over Time: Coach Katte on Basketball and Life

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