{"product_id":"the-leavetakers-9781496225023","title":"The LeaveTakers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Leave-Takers\u003c\/i\u003e is a twenty-first-century American love story and a tale of internal migration to the Great Plains.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is overwhelmingly a love story, and a surprisingly sweet one.\"—Pamela Miller, (Minneapolis)\u003ci\u003e Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Leave-Takers\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to be savored, a novel you will dwell in during the moments you are away from it, suspended in its incantations and contemplations.”—Chris Harding Thornton, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Leave-Takers\u003c\/i\u003e fairly crackles with prose that strings sharp notes and breathtaking lyricism into a finely wrought tale of family struggle for survival on a hard land. These characters take no prisoners, give as good as they get, and never let go of the reader’s emotions or each other. Wingate has written a love song to the Dakota plains and every dream you ever had and lost and rebuilt again and again. A novel that demands to be read and savored many times over!”—Jonis Agee, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bones of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is difficult to write a contemporary novel that offers hope while avoiding sentimentality. Steven Wingate’s raw and compassionate \u003ci\u003eThe Leave-Takers\u003c\/i\u003e does precisely this. It is a novel that explores how, amid so many blunting forces of violence and despair, we might stay sensitive to life and open to the future. The novel shimmers with the regenerative possibilities of family and creativity. This is a novel about woundedness but also about the rituals that allow us to free ourselves from the past and find home and healing right where we are.”—Kent Meyers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Steven Wingate gives us beautifully rendered landscapes, at once expansive and intimate, filled with lively, compelling characters—both alive and dead!—upended by the twists and turns of life. A great ride through the terrain of loss, desire, and unbreakable connection.”—Paula Saunders, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Distance Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Set against the vast, intimidating landscape of South Dakota, \u003ci\u003eThe Leave-Takers\u003c\/i\u003e is a harrowing romance, a powerful story about addiction, perseverance, and ultimately the redemptive, complicated, and fraught power of love.”—Chip Cheek, author of \u003ci\u003eCape May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Citizens of the Lost and Found\u003cbr\u003e 1. Cherry-Red Fender\u003cbr\u003e 2. Laynie and the Dream of Dogs\u003cbr\u003e 3. In Hot Water\u003cbr\u003e 4. That’s My Face\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Upturning\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Well\u003cbr\u003e 7. Places to Hide\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Last Hexagram\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Rise and Fall of a Private Bohemia\u003cbr\u003e 9. Wabasso, Sleepy Eye, and Points Beyond\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Montezuma Goodbye\u003cbr\u003e 11. Rings\u003cbr\u003e 12. Magic Wands\u003cbr\u003e 13. February\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Blood and the Bottle\u003cbr\u003e 15. Aftermathing\u003cbr\u003e 16. That Baboon Smile\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Into the Furious Vortex\u003cbr\u003e 17. Echoing\u003cbr\u003e 18. Fuck You, Harvey Chancelman\u003cbr\u003e 19. Ghosts Weigh In\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Deeper End\u003cbr\u003e 21. Inquisitions\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Bottleneck\u003cbr\u003e 23. False Phoenixes\u003cbr\u003e 24. Retreats\u003cbr\u003e 25. Infinities Between\u003cbr\u003e 26. Zombie Time\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Float On Down the River Lethe\u003cbr\u003e 27. Django\u003cbr\u003e 28. Tabula Rasa\u003cbr\u003e 29. Things They Couldn’t Know","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409234633047,"sku":"9781496225023","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225023.jpg?v=1730506075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-leavetakers-9781496225023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}