The Seaplane on Final Approach

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I didn't realize how much I needed this lusty, funny, heart-breaking bookuntil I devoured it in a single sitting ... A sharp, flawless debut' - Carmen MariaMachado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

Mira, a young woman fascinated with sleaze, finds work on a remote Alaskan island atthe far edges of the Kodiak archipelago. The Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge, run bythe indomitable Maureen and her gregarious husband Lew, is a converted homesteadthat sells its international guests a fantasy - a taste of life on the untamed frontier.

But the pristine natural beauty of Alaska soon reveals a wilderness of conflicted humandesire and, as Mira nurses an erotic obsession, the other residents of Lavender Islandare making plans and taking steps that will tear apart the island's seeming paradise.

'An astounding debut: original and adventurous, horny and hilarious - it's everything I want from a book.' - Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

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'I didn't realize how much I needed this lusty, funny, heart-breaking book until I devoured it in a single sitting ... a bildungsroman set at the edge of the world; a novel about people who belong everywhere and nowhere and the vast, unknowable wilderness of desire. A sharp, flawless debut' - Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

Author Bio

Rebecca Rukeyser is the recipient of the inaugural Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature. Her fiction has appeared in such publications as ZYZZYVA, the Massachusetts Review and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and teaches writing at Bard College Berlin.