{"product_id":"wander-9781597099899","title":"Wander","description":"\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Best Book of Fiction (Literary\/Mainstream) from the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander is the story of Patrice \"Pete\" Nash, a young broadcast reporter who finds herself facing the winter alone after her husband, Nate, accepts a job on \"the slope.\" As Pete pursues the next big breaking news story, she strikes up a friendship with the new guy in town, the Ivy League-educated Ren, who recites poetry and lives in the family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship offers a glimpse of a different kind of life - one that seems to Pete to offer everything marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown to Pete, Ren has come to Alaska for his own dark reasons - to end his life. By the time, Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed. One man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLori Tobias left her Pennsylvania hometown at 18 for a brief visit with her Air Force-enlisted sister in Alaska. She stayed eight years, studying journalism at the University of Alaska and marrying her husband Chan in an A-frame church with a view of Denali. She has since lived in Connecticut, Washington, Southern Oregon and Colorado. In her 25-years in journalism, she worked as a columnist and feature writer for the \u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e, and covered the Oregon Coast as a staff writer for\u003ci\u003e The Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She currently lives on the Oregon Coast with her husband Chan and shelter rescue Mugsy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boreal Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51253959360786,"sku":"9781597099899","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b4bbbc0-44cd-41fc-a4c2-2cf1bfb2bb3f.jpg?v=1746300707","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wander-9781597099899","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}