6/11/2023 0 Comments Idaho by emily ruskovich summary![]() ![]() ![]() The novel feels like the last two chapters were written first, as if Ruskovich heard the story of how Idaho got its name, and that inspired her. It’s just that Ruskovich has been able to put something complex into words. Is time the element that binds us all? Can we communicate from the future to the past, and vice versa, through time? Idaho is neither supernatural nor science fiction it’s a whodunit that is not beyond the realm of possibility. It’s a tribute to memory, and it asks questions that make it feel like the films Arrival (2016) and Interstellar (2014). ![]() Told in flashback, the story centers on a couple, Wade and Ann, and the tragedy their marriage is built upon. ![]() However, in the words of the rock band Blues Traveler, “the mountains win again”, and so too does the land win in every aspect of Emily Ruskovich’s beautiful novel, Idaho. Place matters, and place creates the geography that makes people foolishly believe it can be tamed. Every aspect of Barack Obama’s post-collegiate life was shaped by Chicago. In the new podcast series, Making Obama, on WBEZ-Chicago, the former president, his staff, and supporters are repeatedly asked if his story could have happened in any other city, and the answer is an emphatic no. ![]()
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