READS-TO-GO : [bookclub kit for Etta and Otto and Russell and James]

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Label

READS-TO-GO : [bookclub kit for Etta and Otto and Russell and James]

Title remainder

[bookclub kit for Etta and Otto and Russell and James]

Contributor

• Hooper, Emma
• New Hampshire Library Association, READS-TO-GO
• New Hampshire Library Association, Reference and Adult Services (READS)

Subject

• Book clubs (Discussion groups)
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Group reading
• Kit #147
• Memory -- Fiction
• Older women -- Fiction
• Walking -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

"Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur. Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. 'I will try to remember to come back,' Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war. He understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in and Otto struggles to keep them at bay. Meanwhile, their neighbor Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever she's gone. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life."--

Related

• READS-TO-GO book club kits [brochure]
• Etta and Otto and Russell and James
• Etta and Otto and Russell and James [discussion guide]

Assigning source

Provided by the publisher

Cataloging source

HSA

Characteristic

kit

Technique

not applicable