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Idaho

byEmily Ruskovich, Justine Eyre (Read by)

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Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Idaho by Emily Ruskovich, read by Justine Eyre.

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time.

But then something unimaginably shocking happens, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction.

In a story told from multiple perspectives and in razor-sharp prose, we gradually learn more about this act, and the way its violence, love and memory reverberate through the life of every character in Idaho.

I love Idaho for the sparse beauty of its prose, the unsolvable mystery at its heart, the cleverly constructed non-linear narrative and its preoccupations… which so closely match my own

Paula Hawkins, Guardian

About Emily Ruskovich

Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, on Hoodoo mountain. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, won the Dublin Literary Award and has been optioned as a film by the actress Elisabeth Moss.

She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she teaches in the MFA programme. She lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473548213
  • Length: 635 minutes
  • Price: £11.00
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