A career defining tour-de-force from New York Timesbestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) authorof Peace Like a River Leif Enger.A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (MinneapolisStar Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Likea River which sold over a million copies and captured readers' heartsaround the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author'saccomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, ICheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarkingunder sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeplybeloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encounteringlunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on landan increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire rulingclass, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-likechallenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physicalbeauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in ayoung girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to makean inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his lifegrows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike inhis strengthening wake. I Cheerfully Refuse epitomizes the "musical, sometimes magical and deeplysatisfying kind of storytelling" (Los Angeles Times) for which LeifEnger is cherished. A rollickingnarrative in the most evocative of settings, this latest novel is a symphonyagainst despair and a rallying cry for the future.
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