Bibliograph

Legends of the North Cascades, a novel, Jonathan Evison

Type

Label

Legends of the North Cascades, a novel, Jonathan Evison

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Legends of the North Cascades

Oclc number

1159044038

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Evison

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Dave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave’s life has begun to unravel. Gripped by PTSD, he finds himself losing his home, his wife, his direction. Most days, his love for his seven-year-old daughter, Bella, is the only thing keeping him going. When tragedy strikes, Dave makes a dramatic decision: the two of them will flee their damaged lives, heading off the grid to live in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. As they carve out a home in a cave in that harsh, breathtaking landscape, echoes of its past begin to reach them. Bella retreats into herself, absorbed by visions of a mother and son who lived in the cave thousands of years earlier, at the end of the last ice age. Back in town, Dave and Bella themselves are rapidly becoming the stuff of legend—to all but those who would force them to return home

Target audience

general

Creator