Etta and Otto and Russell and James
A gorgeous literary debut about an elderly woman’s last great adventure walking across Canada. A beautiful novel of pilgrimage, of fulfilling lifelong promises, of a talking coyote called James, of unlikely heroes and hundreds of papier-mâché animals…Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the...
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A gorgeous literary debut about an elderly woman’s last great adventure walking across Canada. A beautiful novel of pilgrimage, of fulfilling lifelong promises, of a talking coyote called James, of unlikely heroes and hundreds of papier-mâché animals…Eighty-two-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boot
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670067749
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I am not sure how to describe this book at all, although I think it is an 'either you get it - or you don't. But here goes: This is one of the most gentlest of books that tackles ageing, dreams, lost dreams, life and realities that I have read in a long time. With a letter to start the book ther...
Received a copy of Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper through the First Reads Giveaway program in exchange for an honest review "We were at a party. One girl said I was like her grandmother, now dead. I told her I'm nobody's grandmother and I'm not dead, and she said that made it per...