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Readers and writers: Enger’s latest novel considers a dark future and a sentient Superior

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Leif Enger's new novel is a love letter to bookstores, to reading, and to hope in a dark world. Set in the near future in a broken America, the novel’s protagonist is Rainy, a bass guitar player who lives with his wife, Lark, on the shore of Lake Superior. Enger depicts Lake Superior as a sentient being.

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Readers and writers: Enger’s latest novel considers a dark future and a sentient Superior

Earlier I’d begun to imagine the lake on my side, a protective demigod, the queen herself, adorned with thunder, stepping between me and those who’d have my skin. So much for all that. Deceived in what I felt, and scared, and it seemed very hard that I would find the Slates, locate the precise hidey-hole Lark and I had sheltered in so long ago, only to have it occupied by enemies and have the lake turn every bit as hostile as they were. — from “…

1 month ago·St Paul, United States

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