Winter Loon

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A haunting debut novel about family and sacrifice, Winter Loon reminds us of how great a burden the past can be, the toll it exacts, and the freedom that comes from letting it go.Abandoned by his father after his mother drowns in a frozen Minnesota lake, fifteen year old Wes Ballot is stranded with coldhearted grandparents and holed up in his mother s old bedroom surrounded by her remnants and memories As the wait for his father stretches unforgivably into months, a local girl, whose own mother died a brutal death, captures his heart and imagination, giving Wes fresh air to breathe in the suffocating small town.When buried truths come to light in the spring thaw, wounds are exposed and violence erupts, forcing Wes to embark on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother, and a future he must claim for himself a quest that begins back at that frozen lake.A powerful, page turning coming of age story, Winter Loon captures the resilience of a boy determined to become a worthy man by confronting family demons, clawing his way out of the darkness, and forging a life from the shambles of a broken past. Read Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard – kino-fada.fr Susan Bernhard s WINTER LOON is a gorgeously lyrical coming of age ballad a soul reckoning exploration of familial ties and the hard fight to make your life your own Wes Ballot s childhood ends when he witnesses a tragedy Forced into the hard, mean life of his grandparents, waiting for his father to rescue him a drifter whose definition of manhood Wes wrestles with throughout the novel Wes must confront his mother s secrets Wes casts about for role models in this tough world and finds it in t Susan Bernhard s WINTER LOON is a gorgeously lyrical coming of age ballad a soul reckoning exploration of familial ties and the hard fight to make your life your own Wes Ballot s childhood ends when he witnesses a tragedy Forced into the hard, mean life of his grandparents, waiting for his father to rescue him a drifter whose definition of manhood Wes wrestles with throughout the novel Wes must confront his mother s secrets Wes casts about for role models in this tough w...This is a beauty of a page turner, dreamy, disquieting, and uncompromising to the end Against the tide of the wandering heart, the novel tells us, only love can offer us a place to rest and only if we let it.This book is beautiful The prose is elegant and, though it took me a moment to become fully immersed in the story, the characters are rich and the setting tangible It s a story of loss and finding and wrought wi...Stunning Heartbreaking Couldn t put it down.

Winter Loon
  • 24 June 2017
  • Audio CD
  • 1978631383
  • Susan Bernhard
  • Winter Loon