Idaho

A stunning debut novel about love, memory, and an act of violence that reverberates through one family for decades
Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged terrain in northern Idaho, where they are bound together by more than love. Wade's past is the center of Ann's imagination, especially as the memories that haunt Wade begin to disappear inside of his illness. In a wild emotional and physical landscape, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first wife, Jenny, and to their daughters. Ann becomes determined to understand the family she never knew—and to take responsibility for them, reassembling their lives, and her own.
In this startling and beautiful novel, written in exquisite prose and told from multiple perspectives—including Ann, Wade, and Jenny, now serving a life sentence in prison—we gradually learn of the mysterious and shocking act that fractured Wade and Jenny's lives, of…