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Ebook About “A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard RussoAn instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too late?It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer “Fish” Branson and Dale “Bread” Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don’t talk about.One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fish’s mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, who’s having doubts about a life in law enforcement.The adults track the boys toward the novel’s heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.Book Raft of Stars: A Novel Review :
After a ten-year-old shoots his best friend’s father in the head, the two traumatized children head into a heavily forested wilderness in northern Wisconsin. Responsible adults follow, and I found myself briefly regretting that I’d bought a routine outdoor adventure thriller. But the novel soon builds into something much, much better. By the time we reach the story’s marvelous ending, Midwestern woods have become the Forest of Arden, and every single character in the story has struggled to one location. After a terrifying storm, the evil one dies, some are transformed, deep bonds are renewed, lovers meet, the rude mechanical calls forth the spirits of the air (rescue helicopters), and everyone is carried home wearily rejoicing that they have overcome the forces of darkness, while knowing that the darkness always rises again. And there are bears! All of this is accomplished by strong, beautiful, economical writing. By the end, I realized what a gem this novel is and how far it had carried me. When have you read a book that is absolutely Shakespearean, completely modern, and without one fancy word or gesture? RAFT OF STARS is not perfect, but it is wonderful. ****Comment on Izzy's review. This whimsical Shakespeare-inspired sketch by "Izzy" is by far the best review of anything I have ever seen on Amazon. I would give his review five stars, even though he gives the book only four!*****Not a coming-of-age story, because the kids in it are only ten years old--I would have made them at least twelve--but skillfully written, thanks in part at least to the author's advanced training at the excellent Iowa Writers Workshop. There are six main characters, split into three pairs: two young boys; two women, one of whom is mother to one of the boys; two adult men, one of whom is grandfather to one of the boys, and the other the county sheriff, less than happy with his job. The sheriff likes the unrelated young woman, especially charmed by her poetry, written on grocery slips, but has yet to get around to asking her for a date. She, in turn, loves him but has not made this clear to him either. There are two other characters crucial to the turns in the plot: the cruel father of one of the boys, and the long-winded bore of a constable, who likes oreos with his coffee. It took me three pages to get all of this straight.As another review has revealed, the plot springs from the fact that one of the boys shoots the nasty father of his friend, leaving him for dead, and they run away through the woods of northeastern Wisconsin, an area I know personally, having taught there for two years a long time ago. (There is an unbearable number of mosquitoes there to torment everybody.) The boys build a raft; their elders pursue them, two on horseback; two in a canoe. Things are slow until they become melodramatic toward the end, at a deadly waterfall, following a terrific thunderstorm with tornado, Graff relieves the tension for adult readers in cinematic style cutting from one pair of characters to another in a way that may upset some young readers! At this point events may go a bit over the top for some readers, but more things than one become resolved. Particularly satisfying for me is the way Graff sketches the understanding between the sheriff and the young woman, without either uttering the L word, following a big argument.*** Read Online Raft of Stars: A Novel Download Raft of Stars: A Novel Raft of Stars: A Novel PDF Raft of Stars: A Novel Mobi Free Reading Raft of Stars: A Novel Download Free Pdf Raft of Stars: A Novel PDF Online Raft of Stars: A Novel Mobi Online Raft of Stars: A Novel Reading Online Raft of Stars: A Novel Read Online Andrew J. Graff Download Andrew J. Graff Andrew J. Graff PDF Andrew J. Graff Mobi Free Reading Andrew J. Graff Download Free Pdf Andrew J. Graff PDF Online Andrew J. Graff Mobi Online Andrew J. Graff Reading Online Andrew J. GraffDownload Mobi Take A Number (Wait With Me Book 4) By Amy Daws
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