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Virgil Wander

Leif Enger

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

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The highly anticipated first novel in a decade from Leif Enger, Virgil Wander intertwines his signature blend of magic and miracle with a heart-piercing story of a hard-working community ground down by industrial decline and its stalwart, unlikely hero, Virgil, who helps turn it around. The novel is filled with whimsy, romance, escapism, and optimism sure to draw fans of Enger’s other novels

A BEA /Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter 2018 Buzz Book

Beloved born and bred Minnesotan Enger writes about the lesser seen America of the Upper Midwest. Virgil Wander will appeal to readers of TEXASVILLE by Larry McMurtry, BARKSKINS by Annie Proulx, HEROES OF THE FRONTIER by Dave Eggers, The Story of EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski, and AMERICAN RUST by Philip Meyer, as well as nonfiction fans of HILLBILLY ELEGY and the podcast S-Town 
 
Enger’s first book Peace Like a River sold 120,372 in cloth, 1,103,700.00 in TP, 44,873 in E and continues to sell monthly. It was a New York Times bestseller, winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, and was a best book of the year for Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. It garnered rave reviews from Susan Salter Reynolds in the LA Times and Ron Charles in the CSM, among many others

His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was a national bestseller, No. 8 on Amazon’s Top 100 Editors' Picks and a Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction.
Available since: 10/02/2018.

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