Author: Rukeyser, Rebecca AlaskaPublished on 13 July 2023 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 288 pages129 x 198 x 19 | 204g An electrifying debut novel about a young woman and her desire for sleaze, whose idyllic summer on a remote Alaskan homestead takes a disturbing turn.Sexy and dark and strange and absolutely perfect. Carmen Maria MachadoPuppy love meets jaded lust to dance their death spiral inside a young womans head ... I ate it up. Nell ZinkTourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkinss Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureens lodge is failing, as is their marriage.Mira has been hired for the season as the lodges baker and housekeeper. But shes also busy gleefully nursing twin obsessions: building a working theory of what constitutes sleaze and pursuing a young fisherman she deems the embodiment of all things deliciously sleazy. Her plans become more perverse and elaborate, even as life on Lavender Island starts to unravel. By midseason, it becomes clear that Stu, the jovial, predatory patriarch of the lodge, has turned his sexual attentions to another young employee. As the mood of the lodge spirals into chaos, the inhabitants realize just how isolated Lavender Island really is. Hilarious, sensual, and charged with menace, The Seaplane on Final Approach brilliantly illuminates the mirage-thin line between the artificial and the feral. In this daring and psychologically razor-sharp debut, Rukeysers characters tear aside the facade of good manners to reveal all of our deepest needs and naked desires.
