Wander - by Lori Tobias (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Wander</i> is a tale about love, loss and betrayal set in the frigid wild of Alaska, where a young news reporter faces the winter alone, discovering too late that the biggest threat lies not in the harsh landscape around her, but in her own fickle heart.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>**Winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction (Literary/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association</b> <p>Set 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 broadcast reporter who finds herself facing the winter alone after her husband, Nate, accepts a job on "the slope." As Pete pursues the next big breaking news story, she strikes up a friendship with the new guy in town, the Ivy League-educated Ren, who recites poetry and lives in the family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship offers a glimpse of a different kind of life - one that seems to Pete to offer everything marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown to Pete, Ren has come to Alaska for his own dark reasons - to end his life. By the time, Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed. One man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>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."' </p> <p> Mim Swartz, <i>The Denver Post</i> <p><i>Wander</i> 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 <i>Rocky Mountain News</i>. <p> Amy Wang, <i>The Oregonian</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lori Tobias left her Pennsylvania hometown at 18 for a brief visit with her Air Force-enlisted sister in Alaska. She stayed eight years, studying journalism at the University of Alaska and marrying her husband Chan in an A-frame church with a view of Denali. She has since lived in Connecticut, Washington, Southern Oregon and Colorado. In her 25-years in journalism, she worked as a columnist and feature writer for the <i>Rocky Mountain News</i>, and covered the Oregon Coast as a staff writer for<i> The Oregonian</i>. She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She currently lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and shelter rescue Mugsy. <br>
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