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Border Songs - Jim Lynch
Border Songs
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Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just a long, grassy ditch, really, barely dividing neighbours who used to be as congenial as those in any small... show more
Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just a long, grassy ditch, really, barely dividing neighbours who used to be as congenial as those in any small community. Though his curious mind proves surprisingly adept at intercepting Canadian pot smugglers and potentially dangerous illegals, years of security hysteria and cross-border resentment — and a fascinating young Canadian who has turned her green thumb to a more lucrative crop — complicate Brandon’ s world in ways even he might not be able to see past.Border Songs is that rare delight: a gently satirical portrait, an extraordinary love story and a celebration of the coincidental and the miraculous.From the Hardcover edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780307271174 (030727117X)
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it
4.0 Border Songs
I started this book a couple of years ago and for some strange reason couldn't get into it. So I put it aside. It kept staring me down when I looked at my "to read" pile and so picked it up a couple of days ago to try again. This time, I couldn't put it down!!What a quirky, character driven story...
Kimber Frantz
Kimber Frantz rated it
5.0 Border Songs
This is high quality writing. I loved the debut novel by Jim Lynch (The Highest Tide) and I loved this as well. Both novels choose a social misfit as the main character and turn that individual into a mytic type of hero. Both books are set in the pacific northwest, Highest Tide on the shores of the ...
cczarneckikernus
cczarneckikernus rated it
0.0 Border Songs
only got about 50 pages in.
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