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The Seaplane on Final Approach : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Rukeyser

Book ID: 112050584
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 453 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780385547635

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✦ Synopsis

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER • A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel that "perfectly telegraphs the suspended animation of tourist-trap life within an eerie life-changing season, the gravity of which will only be felt decades later" (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch).
**"Humor, insight and just the right amount of raunch." --Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House **Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's 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 Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper. But she's...

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