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Cicada Summer Erica McKeen

Cicada Summer By Erica McKeen

Cicada Summer by Erica McKeen


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A woman, her grandfather and her lover quarantine in the remote lakeside wildernesswhere their world splits apart at the seams

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Cicada Summer: A Novel by Erica McKeen

In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfather, Arthur, at his lakeside cabin in remote Ontario. Theyre soon joined by Hushas ex-lover, Nellie, who arrives without explanation to complete their trio.

Also among them is a strange book, discovered by Husha while cleaning out her mothers house. When she, Arthur and Nellie begin to read it together, they learn that her mothers last missive was a short story collection, crawling with unsettling imagery and terrifying transformations. As the stories bleed into their cloistered life in the cabin, they must each reckon with loss, longing and what it means to truly know another person. Incantatory and atmospheric, Cicada Summer is a dazzlingly original novel about how we grieve and care for one another.

Cicada Summer Reviews

"Mesmerizingly subtle and elegant, Cicada Summer investigates which stories must be told in order to unravel that which is unfathomable. As the cicadas chirp, their husks dropping from trees, Erica McKeen masterfully takes us into the liminal space of grief, into a world that crisps alive while it vanishes." -- Gerardo Samano Cordova, author of Monstrilio

About Erica McKeen

Erica McKeen is the author ofTear, a novel that won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for literary fiction, andCicada Summer. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she works as a teacher and librarian.

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CIN1324073810G
9781324073819
1324073810
Cicada Summer: A Novel by Erica McKeen
Used - Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
2024-07-26
272
N/A
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