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Praise for Gregory Spatz:

“[Spatz offers] what I look for in any book: people I can dream myself into and be remade in the process.” —Dorothy Allison, author of Trash and Bastard Out of Carolina

“Gregory Spatz’s prose is as clean and sparkling as a new fall of snow.” —Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint it Black

“At its heart Inukshuk is about family. But Spatz has transfigured this beautifully told, wise story with history and myth, poetry and magic into something rarer, stranger and altogether amazing. A book that points unerringly true north.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Wit’s End

“Inukshuk is a feat of empathy and honesty, a taut tale of fear and resentment and other threats from within, meticulously observed and fearlessly rendered in vivid, authoritative, gripping prose. It’s a virtuoso performance.” —Doug Dorst, author of Alive in Necropolis and The Surf Guru

Inukshuk

Gregory Spatz

Price: $14.95
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934137-42-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-48-2

John Franklin has moved his fifteen-year-old son to the remote northern Canadian town of Houndstitch to make a new life together after his wife, Thomas’ mother, left them. Mourning her disappearance, John writes poetry and escapes into an affair, while Thomas, isolated and bullied, withdraws into a fantasy recreation of the infamous Victorian-era arctic expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin.

A poignant tale of the vulnerability of adolescence interspersed with powerfully evoked scenes of the legendary Franklin crew’s descent into despair, madness, and cannibalism on the Arctic tundra, Inukshuk offers readers a modern family drama as well as a compelling historical adventure.

Gregory Spatz is the author of three previous books of fiction and his stories have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, recipient of a Washington State Book Award and a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, he teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane and plays the fiddle in the JUNO-nominated bluegrass band John Reischman and the Jaybirds.

Publication Date: June 2012 / Pages: 300 / Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.25