I Cheerfully Refuse

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published April 2, 2024 by Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-0-8021-6293-9
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A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s accomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy …

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Post-Apocalyptic but Living a Life

There are some post-apocalyptic books that do an amazing job of not making the plot just post-apocalyptic.

This book’s expansive cast of characters, who are living in a world ravished by climate collapse and capitalism, make lives for themselves. I don’t Know what it means about me that that’s a beautiful and needed idea… but here I am. Can’t wait to re-read this soon.

Quote: “But I couldn't despise Burke; I could've been Burke. That's what I believe. Maybe I still could. What scares me is the notion we are all one rotten moment, one crushed hope or hollow stomach from stuffing someone blameless in a cage.”

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