![]() ![]() ![]() “I fell in love with this book it captured both my head and my heart, completely and utterly.” – Jane, Beyond Eden Rock. A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter is another fine book, a memoir, in the same vein. The novel and short stories of Anthony Doerr come to mind as well when I read Eowyn Ivey’s writing, which is lyrical and replete with exquisite detail. To the Bright Edge of the World reminds me of one of my all-time favorite novels, Voyage of the Narwhalby Andrea Barrett. Many of you know that I’m partial to nature and wilderness stories, especially historical ones. ![]() I would rather have been run through with a spear than face this long dread.”Įowyn Ivey’s novel, To the Bright Edge of the World, is truly a standout for me, a cut above the rest. I am not afraid of death but instead of the passage from here to oblivion, of being aware of its coming. They scream and cry so that it is hard to think to put these words on the page. I do not know if we will survive the night. “Pruitt keeps shouting above the storm–Do you feel that? Can’t you feel that? ![]()
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