5/26/2023 0 Comments Inland by Téa Obreht![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Inland, each dead person has one want, and Lurie spends much of his life in thrall to one ghost's need for water, another's fixation on petty theft. Lurie is a sort of haunting magnet, hyper-susceptible to the desires of the dead. In other words, Inland is a classic story, told in a classic way - and yet it feels wholly and unmistakably new. Familiar, too, is her raconteur-ish narrative style, which is loose and digressive, with occasional Spanish and a faint old-fashioned patina. Inland is a Western, set in the drought-stricken Arizona Territory in 1893 and alternating between two familiar Western protagonists, a lovable outlaw named Lurie and a prickly frontierswoman named Nora. In her follow-up, Inland, she makes her job even harder. Her bestselling debut, The Tiger's Wife, wove modern Balkan history into fairy tale, then transformed fairy tale into reality, tigers and all. The novelist Téa Obreht loves a challenge. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Inland Author Téa Obreht ![]()
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