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Mink River


A General Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Small Town Fiction,
  • Literary Fiction,
  • Oregon Coast
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Quirky small towns where the river has its own secrets
  • Eccentric community rituals like football field picnics and insect-counting
  • Stories where animals and objects have surprising voices
Publisher Description

In a small town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter.

There’s a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a policeman addicted to Puccini, a philosophizing crow, beer and berries.

An expedition is mounted, a crime committed, and there’s an unbelievably huge picnic on the football field.

Babies are born.

A car is cut in half with a saw.

A river confesses what it’s thinking…

It’s the tale of a town, written in a distinct and lyrical voice, and readers will close the book more than a little sad to leave the village of Neawanaka, on the wet coast of Oregon, beneath the hills that used to boast the biggest trees in the history of the world.

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