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Ness when he was just thirteen and where his only companion his beloved teenaged sister Elsbeth mysteriously disappeared It is where the horse wranglers native men mostly Nez Perce pass through each spring with their wild herds setting up camp in the flowering meadows between the treesOne day while in town to sell his fruit at the market two girls barefoot and dirty steal some apples Later they appear on his homestead cautious yet curious about the man who gave them no chase Feral scared and very pregnant Jane and her sister Della take up on Talmadage's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion Yet just as the girls begin to trust him brutal men with guns arrive in the orchard and the shattering tragedy that follows sets Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect them putting himself between the girls and Random notes A b
Amanda Coplin Þ The Orchardist PDF
The OrchardistThe world but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled pastWriting with breathtaking precision and empathy Amanda Coplin has crafted an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners she weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune bound by their search to discover the place they belong At once intimate and epic evocative and atmospheric filled with haunting characters both vivid and true to life and told in a distinctive narrative voice The Orchardist marks the beginning of a stellar literary careerThe National Book Foundation selected Amanda Coplin as one of the authors being honored as 5 Under 35 in 2013 The Orchardist i