Glaciers

ISBN: 1953534902

Author: Smith, Alexis M.

Condition: Used

A Vulture Best Short BookA She Reads Indie Book Club Pick for SummerAlexis Smiths brilliant debut novel is filled with kaleidoscopic pleasures. Line by line, in and out of time, this is a haunted, joyful, beautiful book-a true gift. -Karen RussellHer story could be told in other peoples things. The postcards and the photographs. A garnet ring and a needlepoint of the homestead. The aprons hanging from her kitchen door. Her soft, faded, dog-eared copy of Little House in the Big Woods. A closet full of dresses sewn before she was born. All these things tell a story, but is it hers?Isabel is a single twenty-something in Portland, Oregon, who repairs damaged books in the basement of the local library, dreaming of a life she cant quite reach. She is filled with longing-for a life in Amsterdam even though shes never visited, for the unrequited love of a coworker, for a simpler time from her childhood in Alaska among the threatened glaciers she loves, and for the perfect vintage dress to wear to a party that just might change everything.Unfolding over the course of a single day, Alexis M. Smiths shimmering debut finds Isabel looking into her past-remembering her parents separation, a meeting with an astrologer, and a life-changing encounter with a glacier-and shows us how fleeting, everyday moments can reveal an entire life. In classic movies, in old photographs and unsent postcards, rare books, and thrifted gems, Glaciers tells the story of a young womans love of the past and a hope to make something new and all her own.