Reeling: A Novel

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RayAnnes next adventure takes our intrepid heroine, haunted by her beloved grandmothers death, to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show

What stage of grief is it when your grandmothers ghost keeps popping up on your electronic devices Denial For RayAnne that seems to be the stage for launching the second season of Fishing!in New Zealand. Ready or not, she is taking public televisions first all-women fishing talk show on the road, putting the cold Minnesota winter in the rearview mirrorwhich, it turns out, Gran is haunting, too.

After a challenging first season, and RayAnnes serendipitous ascension to host, theres a lot at stake. With camera-wielding twins Rongo and Rangi along as crew and tour guides, RayAnne and her indefatigable producer Cassi set out across New Zealand in search of noteworthy women who fish: a skipjack boat captain navigating sexist harbors; a writer of historical suffragette fiction, which is, apparently, a thing; a reclusive Mori octogenarian who ties fishing flies for dignitaries. Their stories, and a good dose of the countrys history, are almost enough to take the edge off RayAnnes homesickness and grief, to say nothing of jetlagand it doesnt hurt to discover a bird dog who fishes, an anti-fashionista, a pair of sisters fishing their way through recovery, and . . . a Hobbit Meanwhile, the romantic and family entanglements she left behind at home havent exactly come untangled in her absence.

Those who met RayAnne in Fishing!, Sarah Stonichs first outing with the intrepid, accidental talk-show host, will encounter familiar and unexpected pleasures in her latest anticsand a story whose lighthearted surface and surprising depths will charm readers who now find her for the first time.

Reviews

"This is a fun read, important and tender."Star Tribune

"There isnt a whole lot of fishing in this book but thats OK because its really about family love and the characters are wonderful."Pioneer Press

"You'll be glad there are two novels because you won't want the first one to end."Ely Winter Times

Author Bio

Fishing!, the first installment of RayAnnes adventures, is published by Minnesota, as are the first two volumes in Sarah Stonichs Northern Trilogy, Vacationland and Laurentian Divide. She is also author of These Granite Islands (Minnesota, 2013), which has been translated into seven languages and shortlisted for Frances Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle; a memoir, Shelter: Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North (Minnesota, 2017); and the critically acclaimed novel The Ice Chorus. She lives on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.