![]() Fridlund is an assured writer: she knows how water tuts against a boat hull and how mosquitoes descend into any patch of shade. ![]() With people he was a little afraid.” When a young woman moves with her 4-year-old son into a new cabin across the lake, the teenage Linda, who's looking back on these events as an adult, is hired to babysit. She's hungry in flesh and spirit, a backwoods outcast among “hockey players in their yellowed caps.cheerleaders with their static-charged bangs.” She chops wood and cleans fish with her father, who was “kind to objects. The novel itself unfurls in far northern Minnesota, where a 14-year-old named Mattie Furston, who calls herself Linda, is living on a failed commune with her parents. ![]() It’s a 17-page stunner that begins with a child ghost and ends in a chorus of communal condemnation. An atmospheric, near-gothic coming-of-age novel turns on the dance between predator and prey.įridlund’s debut won the McGinnis-Ritchie Award in 2013 for its first chapter. ![]()
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