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An extremely acclaimed novelist now provides us a genuine epic: a love story that spans 60 years, decades' value of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two primary experiences at play in Wintering are destined together when older people, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the city of Gunflint, Minnesota - instantly changing the Eide family, and a great many other lives, permanently. He'd done this once before, more than 30 years earlier in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and taking along Gustav, his 18-year-old son, pitching this audacious, possibly fatal scheme - winter already arriving on, in these woods, on these waters - as a reenactment of the historic voyageurs' journeys of finding. It's certainly something Gus hasn't forgotten, nor the Devil's Maw of an river, a number of beloved (possibly fantastical) maps, the ice floes and waterfalls (neither especially interesting from a canoe), an impressive bear, the unlimited portages, a sensational forgotten shack, Thanksgiving and Holiday improvised at the even end of the planet earth, the brutal chilly and sheer beauty of everything. And men hunting other men. Now - along with his father pronounced useless - Gus relates their trip in vivid depth to Berit Lovig, who's put in a lot of her life looking forward to Harry, her keen conviction finally fulfilled during the last 2 decades. So a middle-aged man rectifying his personal record, an aging woman wrestling with her own and with the whole saga of an town and region they'd helped to form and were in turn relentlessly, unforgettably formed by.
