Wander

(Paperback)

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**Winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction (Literary/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association

Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice "Pete" Nash, a young broad

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"From the beginning, a sense of foreboding jumps from the pages of Wander. Its there, right off the bat, in the second paragraph, introducing one of the important characters, Ren: And he wanted to die.'

Mim Swartz, The Denver Post

Wander is a compact but fully packed story, a simple but heartbreaking tale of a woman caught to her dismay between two very different men in a harsh landscape. It's told with sharp, spot-on dialogue and efficient characterizations - unsurprisingly, given that Tobias once wrote for The Oregonian and the Rocky Mountain News."

Amy Wang, The Oregonian

Author Bio

Rocky Mountain News, and covered the Oregon Coast as a staff writer for The Oregonian. She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She currently lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and shelter rescue Mugsy.