Coyote
Summer
by
Laura Koerber
Genre:
Magical Realism, Coming of Age
Ben
O’Rourke, his best friend Clint, and their classmate Claire were
supposed to grow up to be wealthy, prominent people like their
parents. They were private school kids, raised in the belief that
they were obliged to turn expensive educations into prestigious
positions in society. Actually, more than that. They were entitled to
prestigious positions—at the top.
Clint
had done that by winning his dad’s seat in Congress. Benny didn’t
know anything about Claire, except she’d never married and she
still lived in Camden. Right there in Clint’s district.
Ben
was nervous. His voice had to reach across the Rocky Mountains,
across the Great Plains, and all the way to Wisconsin. And it had to
reach across nearly forty years and who-knows-what changes and pain
as well. Did it mean anything that Claire never got married? Girls
who went to Saint Anne’s were brought up to get married.
As
the phone rang, Ben’s memory returned to the past…and the two
girls who’d rerouted his life the summer before college. An assault
on Claire right after their high school graduation had led Ben to
struggle with right, wrong, and his place in society; while his first
love, Puppy, taught him there was much more to life than a prep
school upbringing…maybe even things that floated beyond the realm
of human understanding.
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Laura started off life as an artist. Even in early elementary school she could draw with near-photo realism. She liked to tell herself stories while driving, or doing boring tasks such as housework, but never thought of herself as a writer.
That is, until she got involved in the rescue of an abused dog. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled The Dog Thief, made the Kirkus Review list of one hundred best indy publications and set her on a course of writing.
With one exception, her subsequent novels are in the genre of fantasy, though four have themes relating to current events, and three are also dystopias. Wild Hare, the story of a half/man-half/nature spirit and his feud with the local civic powers also made the Kirkus Review “best of” list.
The exception, I Once Was Lost But Now Am Found, is the nonfiction account of the largest dog rescue in the US to succeed without help of local authorities.
Laura is a retired teacher and lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband; her one-eyed cat; and her elderly, disabled and chronically grumpy shih tzu. She is volunteers at a rescue for unadoptable cats.
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Thank you for hosting this stop on my book's tour. I am sorry, but I will not be answering comments for several days. I am off to the ocean for a mini-vacation!But So thank you I'll check in later. Laura
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