- Hardcover: 259 pages
- Publisher: Five Star (ME) (August 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1594147051
- ISBN-13: 978-1594147050
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,364,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Dark fantasy writer Engstrom (Black Leather) starts on familiar ground, but rapidly turns this novel in stories into a genre-blending exploration of love, aging, grief and sacrifice. In Vargas County, children under 12 occasionally vanish, but the locals have long viewed this as a tithe taken by the town in exchange for the happiness of the other residents. This theme is explored directly in stories like House Odds, in which real estate agent Julia has to decide if her grandchildren would be in greater danger in town or away with their drunken father. Other tales merely use the disappearances as a backdrop, such as Skytouch Fever, in which aging Sadie Katherine is forced to choose between her steadfast beau and a rakish visitor, and the wittily ironic thriller One Quiet Evening in the Wax Museum. Fast-paced, melancholy and beautiful, the overarching narrative binds a collection of good stories into a superb if unconventional novel. (Aug.)
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fascinating twenty interlocking paranormal "shorts" novel, Aug 30 2008
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Stories (Hardcover)
Residents of isolated White Pines Junction in Vargas County live a prosperous contented life. The town seems normal to the tourists who flock there for fishing in the lakes in the summer. However, the locals know that periodically children under the age of twelve years old disappear without a trace. The townsfolk accept the abductions as a fee from beyond for their wonderful lifestyle.
Not all accept the sudden loss of their child. For instance when adolescent Micah is abducted, his mom Margie needs closure as she obsesses over knowing who and why. Her husband has already adjusted to the inevitable, but though somewhat at peace she pursues what is accepted by the natives as natural.
THE NORTHWOODS CHRONICLES is actually twenty interlocking short stories as each additional entry builds off the previous contributions. Together the entries make a fascinating paranormal novel in which for the most part the local residents live contented quiet evenings, but once in a while a snatch occurs. Surprisingly the novel in stories works because the differing characters enable Elizabeth Engstrom to look deep at what makes a human as she explores various types of love especially sacrificial and its symbiotic partners guilt and grief.
Harriet Klausner
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Highly Recommended!, Dec 28 2009
By Matthew Lowes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Stories (Hardcover)
I love these stories! Beautifully written, each one is woven into a novel that explores the dark woods in more ways than one. There's so much to enjoy here, such a variety of real emotional and moral dilemmas, a great cast of offbeat and eccentric characters, and stories that just ring true, even in their most extraordinary moments. Engstrom's Northwoods is a place and a book I'll be revisiting. Highly recommended!
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The Northwoods Chronicles, Oct 23 2008
By Nancy R. Winiarski - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Stories (Hardcover)
I loved this book. Although I wanted to linger over each beautifully written short story-chapter, I couldn't help racing forward to see what was next. I grew up in creepy northern woods and was not at all surprised that this could happen there. The atmosphere, characters and emotions are spot on and perfectly combined with just the right amount of spookiness. I highly recommend this novel.
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