Vacationland Claimed

On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images “reflected across the mirrors of memory and water,” much as the linked stories of Vacationland cast shimmering spells across distance and time.

Those whose paths have crossed at Naledi inhabit Vacationland : a man from nearby Hatchet Inlet who knew Meg back when, a Sarajevo refugee sponsored by two parishes who can’t afford “their own refugee,” aged sisters traveling to fulfill a fateful pact once made at the resort, a philandering ad man, a lonely Ojibwe stonemason, and a haiku-spouting girl rescued from a bog.

Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as “unexpected and moving” by the Chicago Tribune and “a well-paced feast” by the Los Angeles Times , weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.

About the Author:The author of internationally acclaimed and award-winning novels “Laurentian Divide” and “Vacationland”, the first two volumes in her Northern trilogy. Her earlier novels, “These Granite Islands” and “The Ice Chorus”, left their marks on readers around the world, having been translated into eleven languages – most recently into Czech. Visit her web site for reviews and info. Sarah’s memoir, ‘Shelter: Off The Grid In The Mostly Magnetic North’, winner of the NE MN Book Award is now available in paperback.

Her feminist fiction Fishing with RayAnne trilogy debuted with “Fishing!” and will be followed next year by “Reeling”. Sarah writes and lives in Minnesota with her husband, Jon. For more visit sarahstonich.com and like her FB page: Sarah Stonich Bookshelf