Bøger af Amity Gaige

For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson and Jennifer Egan

'Heartwood is a true wilderness thriller: a missing person quest rendered in agile, extraordinary prose by a novelist at the height of her powers. I found it nearly impossible to put down' Jennifer EganValerie Gillis, a 42-year-old nurse, is hiking the Appalachian Trail, a legendarily challenging route that runs from Georgia to Maine, taking in fourteen states. She has almost reached the end when she vanishes.Beverly Miller, the first female game warden ever hired in the state of Maine, has a near-perfect record of finding lost people. She is leading a search and rescue mission through the impenetrable woods.Meanwhile, Lena follows the case online from her retirement home, believing she might hold the key to the case.Heartwood is a love letter to mothers, daughters, nurses, first responders, loners, and lovers of nature, and to anyone who's been lost along the way.

'Heartwood is a true wilderness thriller: a missing person quest rendered in agile, extraordinary prose by a novelist at the height of her powers. I found it nearly impossible to put down' Jennifer EganValerie Gillis, a 42-year-old nurse, is hiking the Appalachian Trail, a legendarily challenging route that runs from Georgia to Maine, taking in fourteen states. She has almost reached the end when she vanishes. Beverly Miller, the first female game warden ever hired in the state of Maine, has a near-perfect record of finding lost people. She is leading a search and rescue mission through the impenetrable woods. Meanwhile, Lena follows the case online from her retirement home, believing she might hold the key to the case. Heartwood is a love letter to mothers, daughters, nurses, first responders, loners, and lovers of nature, and to anyone who's been lost along the way.

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events-some comic, some harrowing-is set in motion, revealing the fault lines of the couple's marriage and individual psyches. Amity Gaige is a consummate stylist. Her every sentence contains a tiny world-marrying striking images to deep, soulful ideas in perfectly concise fashion.

Juliet forsøger forgæves at finde en balance mellem familielivet og hendes fejlslagne ph.d.-afhandling om bekendelsespoesi, da hendes mand, Michael, fortæller hende, at han har tænkt sig at sige sit job op og købe en sejlbåd. Sammen med deres to børn, Sybil på syv og George på to, begiver Juliet og Michael sig af sted til Panama, hvor deres 44 fod lange sejlbåd venter på dem. I begyndelsen forandrer alt sig til det bedre: Juliet og Michaels ægteskab får ny energi, Juliet kommer ud af sin depression og børnene lærer hurtigt at sætte pris på det frie liv til søs. På trods af deres manglende erfaring som sejlere og tankerne om deres stigende gæld giver de fjerne horisonter og isolerede øer Juliet og Michael en længe tiltrængt pause fra hverdagens trummerum. Men da familien må lægge til i en større havneby, bliver en skæbnesvangert møde begyndelsen på en hæsblæsende række begivenheder, der for altid vil ændre deres tilværelse.”Psykologisk udforskende roman med listigt suspense-element”❤️❤️❤️❤️- Politiken

Juliet forsøger forgæves at finde en balance mellem familielivet og hendes fejlslagne ph.d.-afhandling om bekendelsespoesi, da hendes mand, Michael, fortæller hende, at han har tænkt sig at sige sit job op og købe en sejlbåd. Sammen med deres to børn, Sybil på syv og George på to, begiver Juliet og Michael sig af sted til Panama, hvor deres 44 fod lange sejlbåd venter på dem. I begyndelsen forandrer alt sig til det bedre: Juliet og Michaels ægteskab får ny energi, Juliet kommer ud af sin depression og børnene lærer hurtigt at sætte pris på det frie liv til søs. På trods af deres manglende erfaring som sejlere og tankerne om deres stigende gæld giver de fjerne horisonter og isolerede øer Juliet og Michael en længe tiltrængt pause fra hverdagens trummerum. Men da familien må lægge til i en større havneby, bliver en skæbnesvangert møde begyndelsen på en hæsblæsende række begivenheder, der for altid vil ændre deres tilværelse.”Psykologisk udforskende roman med listigt suspense-element”❤️❤️❤️❤️- Politiken

Juliet forsøger forgæves at finde en balance mellem familielivet og hendes fejlslagne ph.d.-afhandling om bekendelsespoesi, da hendes mand, Michael, fortæller hende, at han har tænkt sig at sige sit job op og købe en sejlbåd. Sammen med deres to børn, Sybil på syv og George på to, begiver Juliet og Michael sig af sted til Panama, hvor deres 44 fod lange sejlbåd venter på dem.I begyndelsen forandrer alt sig til det bedre: Juliet og Michaels ægteskab får ny energi, Juliet kommer ud af sin depression og børnene lærer hurtigt at sætte pris på det frie liv til søs. På trods af deres manglende erfaring som sejlere og tankerne om deres stigende gæld giver de fjerne horisonter og isolerede øer Juliet og Michael en længe tiltrængt pause fra hverdagens trummerum. Men da familien må lægge til i en større havneby, bliver en skæbnesvangert møde begyndelsen på en hæsblæsende række begivenheder, der for altid vil ændre deres tilværelse.

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.SCHRODER relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand-and maybe even explain-his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives--those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.

Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later through the New England countryside with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amidst a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life in order to understand - and maybe even explain - his behaviour; the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.