The Mountain Can Wait

Name: The Mountain Can Wait
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Leipciger
ISBN: 9781478985945

Author: Sarah Leipciger

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Published: 05/19/2015

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Literary Fiction, Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

Tragedy erupts in an instant. Lives are shattered irrevocably. A young man drives off into the night, leaving a girl injured, perhaps fatally so. From that cliffhanger opening, Leipciger takes readers back and forward in time to tell the haunting story of one family's unraveling in rural logging country where the land is still the economic backbone.

Like the novels of Annie Proulx, this debut is rooted in richly detailed nature writing and sharply focused on small town mores and regional culture. Marrying the propulsive story of a father and son who, in the wake of catastrophe, must confront their private demons to reach for redemption with an evocative meditation on our environmental legacy, The Mountain Can Wait introduces Leipciger as an exciting talent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on August 13, 2019

j'accuse! this book totally roofied me. i don't know how else to account for the fact that every single time i had to put it down to do the other things that life requires of me, i would completely lose the thread of the story, and i would have to go back and reread a few pages just to remember even t......more

Goodreads review by Claire Reviews on August 21, 2015

Review: The Mountain Can Wait by Sarah Leipciger Published by: Tinder Press (7th may 2015) ISBN: 978-1472223890 Source: Netgalley Rating: 3* Synopsis: Set in a stunning but scarred Canadian landscape, THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT is a story of fathers and sons and the heartache they cause each other, in the......more

Goodreads review by Claire on July 24, 2015

Very immersive; beautiful nature writing in fiction which really took me to the locations, especially the Canadian forest and the island where the grandmother lives, and a great story.......more

Goodreads review by Caro on January 19, 2025

4.5 stars ✨......more

Goodreads review by Renita on February 04, 2017

Emotional and poignant. Beautiful writing.......more

Quotes

"THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT is a taut, psychologically gripping novel populated by original characters constantly at battle with nature, family, society, and themselves. This is a book that kept me up at night. Leipciger has Margaret Atwood's rare flair for crafting an intelligent and suspenseful novel."—- Nickolas Butler, bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs

"It's clear and beautiful, like swimming in a mountain lake."—Mark Haddon, author of New York Times bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

"In this assured debut novel Leipciger beautifully captures the tender and mercurial relationship between father and son, Tom and Curtis Berry. These are characters you care about, flawed and haunted by regret, existing in the harsh yet undeniably radiant world of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Leipciger writes with great compassion and precision, her language is an exquisite mix of muscle and grace. The Mountain Can Wait resonated with wonderful imagery which will stay with me for a very long time."—Michele Forbes, author of Ghost Moth

"The Mountain Can Wait is as haunting, wild and compelling as the landscape it describes."
—Claire Cameron, author of The Bear