Overview
From the author of Blue Graffiti, a ghost story like no other, set on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Having abandoned a once promising future, Wade Peterson has taken root on Eagle Island, a hidden piece of land off the banks of the Mississippi River, set on the border between Iowa and Illinois. Each day, he cuts and bundles wood, stacking it in the back of a trailer pulled by a rusted four-wheeler. As the sun sets, he drives familiar paths through the forest to his cabin, where he lives with his family in the quiet, mysterious reverie of island life. Only a handful of years ago, Wade was an NCAA champion swimmer. These days he only swims in the near-black waters of America’s most powerful river, haunted by a past whose lingering shadows he cannot escape.
In the evening, Wade’s father David will sit alone at a fire, under the stars. Some nights he sings, other nights he rages, but the drink is constant. Wade’s little sister Jade will want to be read books before bed, and his mother Annie will softly ask him about his day. Wade will take off his boots by the door and he’ll rub his eyes with muddy hands, exhausted. A current of secrets runs beneath. And then his father will disappear into the night.
It is with Emma Lee, a local woman he's known since childhood, that Wade begins to confront the truth of what has happened to him, his father, and his family. As Wade’s visits to see Emma in nearby Halbany increase, we come to see that Wade is a young man locked out of time.
You, Your Father is a ghost story like no other—a love story for those lost, entwined with the spirit of those still living. Elegiac and ambitious, Calahan Skogman's prose submerges us in the beauty of place, the complexity of grief, and the sacrifices made in the name of love.
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