American Boy Esquire Top Books of the YearMidwest Booksellers Choice Award FinalistBooklist Editor s Choice Best BookPublishers Weekly Top Indie Sleeper HitsWBEZ Chicago Top Books of We were expos

Esquire Top 9 Books of the YearMidwest Booksellers Choice Award FinalistBooklist Editor s Choice 2011 Best BookPublishers Weekly 20 Top Indie Sleeper HitsWBEZ Chicago Top 10 Books of 2011We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not always those we are taught .So begins Matthew Garth s story of theEsquire Top 9 Books of the YearMidwest Booksellers Choice Award FinalistBooklist Editor s Choice 2011 Best BookPublishers Weekly 20 Top Indie Sleeper HitsWBEZ Chicago Top 10 Books of 2011We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not always those we are taught .So begins Matthew Garth s story of the fall of 1962, when the shooting of a young woman on Thanksgiving Day sets off a chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota Matthew first sees Louisa Lindahl in Dr Dunbar s home office, and at the time her bullet wound makes nearly as strong an impression as her unclothed body Fueled over the following weeks by his feverish longing for this mysterious woman as well as by a deep desire for the comfort and affluence that appears to surround the Dunbars Matthew finds himself drawn into a series of confrontations he never expected, the results of which will change his life irrevocably and give lie to his version of the American dream.Immersive, heartbreaking, and richly evocative of time and place, this long awaited new novel marks the return of a great American storyteller.
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Larry Watson was born in 1947 in Rugby, North Dakota He grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota, and was educated in its public schools Larry married his high school sweetheart, Susan Gibbons, in 1967 He received his BA and MA from the University of North Dakota, his Ph.D from the creative writing program at the University of Utah, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Ripon College Watson has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts 1987, 2004 and the Wisconsin Arts Board.