David Treuer

Prudence David Treuer

Publisher Marketing: From a rising Native American writer, a haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II era AmericaOn a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family s rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he s about to leave behind: his hovering mother, the distant father to whom he s been a disappointment, the Indian caretaker who s been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has become something much more intimate. But before the homecoming can be celebrated, the search for a German soldier who has escaped from the POW camp across the river explodes in a shocking act of violence, with consequences that will reverberate years into the future for all of them and that will shape how each of them makes sense of their lives. With" Prudence," Treuer delivers his most ambitious and captivating novel yet. Powerful and wholly original, it s a story of desire and loss and the search for connection in a riven world; of race and class in a supposedly more innocent era. Most profoundly, it s about the secrets we choose to keep, the ones we can t help but tell, and who and how we re allowed to love." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2014 pg. 48 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2014 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 97 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) Booklist 01/01/2015 pg. 53 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 73 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 04/12/2015 pg. 9 (EAN 9781594633089, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Treuer, David David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He grew up on Leech Lake and left to attend Princeton University where he worked with Paul Muldoon, Joanna Scott, and Toni Morrison. He published his first novel, "Little", when he was twenty-four. Treuer is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared on the editor s pick lists of the "Washington Post", "Time Out", and others. His essays and reviews have appeared in Esquire, ""Slate, "the "New York Times", the Washington Post, "and the "Los Angeles Times". Treuer has a PhD in anthropology and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. He divides his time between Los Angeles and the Leech Lake Reservation.