Event Schedule: Aegolius Creek and Micah Thorp
Aegolius Creek is officially released in just four days, and our author will be out and about in the Portland area. Save the date to come out and hear Micah discuss his wonderful novel! Support local authors and indie publishers! Leave with a signed copy! Click below for more information about each event:
There’s still time (2 days!) left to enter the giveaway over at Goodreads:
We love this recent review from William over on Goodreads:
“Author Micah Thorpe has treated us to the quintessential Oregon story: loggers vs. environmentalists, rugged individualists vs. corporate suits, a vanishing rural way of life vs. growing urbanization.
Don Karlsson has lived on his land for decades. He built the house himself, planted the Douglas firs that surround it, buried his wife along the banks of the creek. Each year, he harvests enough timber to pay his taxes, until a university professor discovers what may be a new and endangered species of vole in the forest canopy. When a judge grants an injunction to cease all logging in the area, Karlsson may lose everything.
His daughter, a lawyer working in Boston, comes to his defense with mixed feelings. She wants her aging father, who lives alone miles from town, to leave the land out of concern for his welfare. One of his sons, who believes as his father does, is willing to do anything to preserve the family homestead and his father’s right to log it, even if it comes to violence. Karlsson’s other son has a spiritual connection to the land and will do whatever it takes to prevent a single tree from being cut.
The writing is crisp, the pacing is excellent, the story is immersive, the characters are flawed and engaging. Along the way, we learn a lot about Oregon and its “identity crisis.” The fate of logging and timber production is handled sympathetically, documenting the closing of sawmills and the disappearance of the towns that depended upon them.
We are left mourning the passing of a way of life and haunted by what our Native American brothers and sisters knew from the beginning: no one owns the land. We are but stewards of a gift.”
Get ready for the pub date and get your copy NOW:
