News of the Air - Paperback

by Jill Briana Stukenberg (Author)

Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern world finally found Allie, her husband, and their troubled cypher of a teenage daughter? This eco-novel of a family, told from three points of view, explores how we remake our lives once we open our hearts to all the news we've chosen to ignore.

Author Biography

Jill Stukenberg's novel News of the Air was the winner of the Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. A graduate of the MFA program at New Mexico State University, she is now Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, and co-editor of Midwest Review.