Bill Roorbach is back with an immersive love story of two kindred souls
in a world determined to tear them apart.
When Cindra Zoeller, sixteen, is sent to a reform camp in Montana,
she’s a young, privileged white girl who has evaded more severe
punishment for her crime. Even at Camp Challenge, she gets
special treatment, unlike the punishment many of the girls face. She
becomes transfixed by Lucky, a watchful, capable, and mysterious camp
employee, and as the connection between them grows stronger, Lucky
and Cindra quickly become lovers. They escape into the Rocky
Mountains and create an idyllic life, living off Lucky’s vast knowledge of
the wilderness.
But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the
consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together—and
circumstances shaped by skin color—will keep them apart for decades.
Lucky goes to prison, and Cindra finds herself in a cosseted and
carefully surveilled life, circumscribed by a man who claims to be her
rescuer. But for Cindra, there will never be another Lucky, and she
knows she must find him, the only man she's ever fully trusted, her
soulmate.
For readers of Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, and John Irving, Lucky
Turtle is a deeply engrossing love story from one of our most
entertaining and perceptive writers." Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56271459-lucky-
turtle?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
Bill Roorbach is back with an immersive love story of two kindred souls
in a world determined to tear them apart.
When Cindra Zoeller, sixteen, is sent to a reform camp in Montana,
she’s a young, privileged white girl who has evaded more severe
punishment for her crime. Even at Camp Challenge, she gets
special treatment, unlike the punishment many of the girls face. She
becomes transfixed by Lucky, a watchful, capable, and mysterious camp
employee, and as the connection between them grows stronger, Lucky
and Cindra quickly become lovers. They escape into the Rocky
Mountains and create an idyllic life, living off Lucky’s vast knowledge of
the wilderness.
But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the
consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together—and
circumstances shaped by skin color—will keep them apart for decades.
Lucky goes to prison, and Cindra finds herself in a cosseted and
carefully surveilled life, circumscribed by a man who claims to be her
rescuer. But for Cindra, there will never be another Lucky, and she
knows she must find him, the only man she's ever fully trusted, her
soulmate.
For readers of Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, and John Irving, Lucky
Turtle is a deeply engrossing love story from one of our most
entertaining and perceptive writers." Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56271459-lucky-
turtle?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
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