Mink River by Brian Doyle

Doyle wraps his readers in ribbon and totes them along on a journey to reveal the queer gifts of life—though don’t expect any neatly tied bows. His prose is definitive, captivating, and cutting and his narrative is quixotic—unbounded by reality but unfailingly real. Doyle is an architect of small worlds with a saucer-sized eye for detail. Mink River winds through the lives of a small town on the Oregon Coast, with strange and compelling characters, inhabiting a world sufficiently rich to enliven your own long after you put this book down.  

Paperback, 319 pages, Oregon State University Press, 9" x 6".