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A Breakout NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerAn Indie National Bestseller"Outstanding . . . The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone." - Esquire "The story unfolds brilliantly, always surprisingly . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston's story; each somehow enhances the other . . . Read this astonishing novel." - The Washington Post "Tim Johnston's high-wire literary thriller . . . will leave you gasping." - Vanity Fair"A riveting literary thriller of the can't-stop-turning-the-page, stay-up-all-night variety." - Alice LaPlante, author of A Circle of Wives The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college.
About the Author
Tim Johnston's newest novel is THE CURRENT (2019, Algonquin) . He is also the author of the New York Time's bestselling novel DESCENT (2015, Algonquin) , the story collection IRISH GIRL (2009, UNT Press) , and the YA novel NEVER SO GREEN (2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) . A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie National bestseller, DESCENT has been published internationally and optioned for film. The stories of IRISH GIRL have won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Tim holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was a carpenter for most of his adult life. He was the 2015 Iowa Author, and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa. For more, please go to www.timjohnston.net.On Twitter: @TJohnstonWriterOn Facebook: TimJohnston.Writer
