![]() ![]() “A simple story, on its face, but full of resounding depths: a dark commemoration of a dark time but offering the slim hope that things will get better. ![]() Rather, it looks deeply into its characters’ lives with wisdom and humanity, and, in doing so, helps us experience a distant past that feels as if it could be our own. it’s Krivak’s gorgeous prose and deep grasp of the relationship between longing and loss that make this book such a stunner.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. The Sojourn National Book Award FinalistChautauqua Prize WinnerDayton Literary Peace Prize WinnerSome writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over. ![]() “With studied language and a strong sense of place, Krivak elucidates how family structures and narratives fractured, maintained, and evolved between World Wars I and the Vietnam War.” - Library Journal, starred review ![]() His prose is spare, but his portrait of a little-known mountain region ‘rife with stones and rattlesnakes’ is compelling, beautiful, and ennobling.” - Booklist, starred review “Krivák’s story and characters are mythic. Join Gibson's Bookstore as we present the stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak ( The Sojourn)- a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War, in The Signal Flame. Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear, a Mountain Book Competition winner The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist and The Sojourn. Rescheduled due to weather, to Wednesday, March 1st, 5:30 p.m. ![]()
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