Nightjar
About This Book
Emily Ruskovich, the author of the bestselling novel Idaho, turns here to short fiction. The stories in Nightjar follow ordinary people whose lives change course because of a sudden, hard-to-explain instinct, a sense of knowing something before they can say how. In "Victor's Room," a woman has spent five years in the remote Oregon house where her husband grew up. Gradually she starts to doubt what he has told her about his family's past. In "Round Lake," a young woman is about to fly to Tokyo to meet a lover when she discovers a shocking truth about how her mother died, and her plans fall apart. In "Owl," which won an O. Henry Award, a fur trapper is forced to face the grim beginnings of his marriage after his wife is savagely attacked by four teenage boys. The settings are rooted in the Pacific Northwest, and the mood is eerie and psychologically probing. Ruskovich writes about the knowledge that sits just below conscious thought, the kind that guides people long before they can explain it.
ISBN: 9780812994025
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