The Oregon Experiment

✍ Scribed by Keith Scribner

• Book ID: 100236334
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 243 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307596788

✦ Synopsis

Naomi and Scanlon Pratt are at the threshold of a new life. East Coast transplants in small town Oregon, Scanlon will be a professor at the university--teaching mass movements and domestic radicalism--and Naomi, a professional "nose" who lost her sense of smell, is pregnant with their first child.

For Scanlon, all of this is ideal. With ample opportunity for field research, he finds a subject in Clay, a young anarchist who despises him but adores Naomi. And he also becomes involved with a local secessionist movement--and its sensuous, free-spirited leader. Naomi, though far less enchanted, discovers that Oregon offers a multitude of scents. Her nose has returned--but she isn't pleased with everything she smells. As they welcome their newborn, their lives become increasingly intertwined with Clay's, and they soon must decide exactly where their loyalties lie--before the world Scanlon has been dabbling in engulfs them all.

A contemporary civil war between desire and...