Bibliograph

Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a novel, Emma Hooper

Type

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Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a novel, Emma Hooper

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Oclc number

897825847

Responsibility statement

Emma Hooper

Series statement

Thorndike Press Large Print Basic

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur. Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. "I will try to remember to come back, " Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war. He understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in and Otto struggles to keep them at bay. Meanwhile, their neighbor Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever she's gone. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life

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