Touch

Dear Bibliophiles,

Recently, a fair number of you have asked me for book recommendations. I have an excellent suggestion for you! Alexi Zentner's first novel, Touch, has just been released and it's a beautiful, haunting read that will stay with you for a long time. From his website www.alexizentner.com:

"In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Stephen, a pastor, is at home on the eve of his mother's funeral, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned to the town in search of his beloved but long-dead wife. And like his grandfather, Stephen is forced to confront the losses of his past.

    Touch introduces you to a world where monsters and witches oppose singing dogs and golden caribou, where the living and the dead part and meet again in the crippling beauty of winter and the surreal haze of summer."

Alexi will be reading Thursday, April 14th at 7:30pm at Powell's City of Books on West Burnside. So come to Powell's this Thursday evening, get your book signed, and hear and fantastic writer read from his debut novel. What more could a book-lover want?

~Jan