Lost Canyon, Nina Revoyr
Lost Canyon, Nina Revoyr
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Lost Canyon

Author: Nina Revoyr

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/25/2015


Synopsis

Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. They are drawn to the mountains for reasons as diverse as their own lives. Gwen Foster, a counselor for at-risk youths, is struggling with burnout from the demands of her job. Real estate agent Oscar Barajas is adjusting to the fall of the housing market and being a single parent. Todd Harris, an attorney, is stuck in a lucrative but unfulfilling career-and in a failing marriage. They are all brought together by their trainer, Tracy Cole, a former athlete with a taste for risky pursuits. When the hikers start up a pristine mountain trail that hasn't been traveled in years, all they have to guide them is a hand-drawn map of a remote, mysterious place called Lost Canyon. At first, the route past high alpine lakes and under towering, snowcapped peaks offers all the freedom and exhilaration they'd hoped for. But when they stumble onto someone who doesn't want to be found, the group finds itself faced with a series of dangerous conflicts, moral dilemmas, confrontations with nature, and an all-out struggle for survival. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race, class, and culture shape experience and perception. It examines the choices good people must face in desperate situations. Set in the grand, wild landscape of California's mountains, Lost Canyon is a story of brewing social tensions and breathtaking adventure that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janet on August 07, 2015

A wilderness thriller with an contemporary twist, Revoyr brings together four unlikely urbanites--Gwen, an African-American social worker and nature-newbie, Oscar, a successful Chicano realtor"trying to get back in touch with himself, Todd, an Anglo lawyer and family man needing a break, and Tracy,......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 06, 2015

What did I think? I thought Wow! Amazing! A feat! I have read all but one of Nina Revoyr's novels. She is unique as a novelist, able to combine and hold in perfect tension, complex and sometimes opposing viewpoints. She is also one of my city's most fervent chroniclers of the complex and sometimes op......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 17, 2015

If you're looking for a book for yourself (or a book club) that has something of everything, you should really consider LOST CANYON. A contemporary drama with steadily rising stakes and well-drawn characters. I can't tell you how nice it was to get to know this group of four very different people an......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 13, 2024

If you enjoy a thriller set in the great outdoors and you enjoy all of those descriptions of the wilderness than you might enjoy this. Just realize that the thrills start about halfway through the book... There is a little foreshadowing if you are clever enough to spot it, and I did, still I was unc......more