Wintering

Quotes

“The last time I read a literary thriller so profound Cormac McCarthy’s name was on its spine. But Peter Geye is his own man and Wintering is as unique and menacingly beautiful as its Minnesota borderlands setting.” Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

“An elegant, quietly profound, and harrowing novel. I loved this book.” Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author

“There’s a lot to love about this novel: the beauty of the wilderness, the tenderness of relationships, the craft…[There] is the feeling you get at the funeral of a loved one—how you ache to hear the stories you never knew so that you might round out the man…But in the sharing of stories there is healing, if not complete comprehension—and that, it seems to me, is the point and triumph of this novel.” Minneapolis Star Tribune

“A page-turning cross between Jack London’s naturalism and Jim Harrison’s poetic symbolism…[Stitches] together two frequently dissociated strands in American literature: its dramas of beset manhood and its domestic chronicles…Wintering gives us both, vividly imagining an outward bound journey that eventually brings us home to a fuller understanding of ourselves.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Geye’s powerful third outing journeys to the frozen places in the American landscape and the human heart…Capturing the strength and mystery of characters who seem inextricable from the landscape, Geye’s novel is an unsentimental testament to the healing that’s possible when we confront our bleakest places.” Publishers Weekly

“Beautifully written [and] supported by immaculately conceived characters [and] Geye’s instinctive sense of narrative movement…The relatively small and enclosed community is Geye’s perfect laboratory for exploring human nature.” Booklist

“There’s no greater literary pleasure than watching a master emerge. I’ve witnessed Peter Geye grow into that distinction for coming on two decades now. All I can say is Wintering proves his finest, most powerful work yet.” Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road

“Geye’s assured narrative gradually unfolds a Jack London-like tale of survival blended with a Richard Russo-like picture of small-town intrigue…Geye dips into history with ease and comes out with a story as contemporary as anything flashing across our screens today. Wintering is a novel for the ages.” Shelf Awareness

“Peter Geye’s third novel is a work of great power and primal beauty, an epic literary journey into the forbidding wilds of Northern Minnesota. Geye is a masterful writer whose elegiac prose captures both the holiness and brutality of nature. Wintering is a stunning book, one that takes hold of the reader from the first haunting line and never lets go.” Amy Greene, bestselling author of Bloodroot

“In starkly elegant prose that matches neatly the deep northern landscape in which it’s set, Wintering is a vivid portrait of fathers and sons, generational battles of love and exhaustion, forgiveness and mystery. The bonds crack, shimmer, and hold, like ice, like granite ledges. Peter Geye writes with a nigh-mythic force. An extraordinary novel.” Jeffrey Lent, author of A Peculiar Grace

Awards

• Publishers Weekly Pick
• Indie Next List
• BookPage Book of the Day
• Minnesota Book Award
• Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner