Idaho

Author: Emily Ruskovich

Format: Paperback

Dylan Thomas Prize 2018

**Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award**

'I love Idaho' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

This sharp, stunning debut novel and Irish bestseller about grief, loss and redemption is your next literary obsession

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time.

But then Jenny does something unspeakable, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction, and leave dark unanswered questions for years to come.

'Unflinching...multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

'A puzzle that enthrals from the outset' — Guardian

'Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you've put it down' — Evening Standard, Books of the Year

About the Author

EMILY RUSKOVICH's critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and won the Dublin Literary Award. She is a winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and her writing has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Zoetrope and One Story. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she teaches fiction. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children. Nightjar is her second book.

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