The Tumble Inn
by William Loizeaux
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Pub Date Sep 15 2014 | Archive Date Sep 14 2014
Description
Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There they muddle through their first season at the inn, serving barely edible dinners to guests, stranding themselves in chest-deep snowdrifts, and somehow, miraculously, amid swarms of ravenous black flies, conceiving a child, a girl they name Nat. Years later, when Mark and Fran are nearing middle age and Nat is a troubled teenager, Mark’s life is ripped apart, forever changed, and he must choose between returning to his old home in New Jersey or trying to rebuild what is left of his life and family in the place of his greatest joy and deepest sorrow. The Tumble Inn is a moving drama about home and about the fragility and resilience of love.
6 x 9, 176 pages
Advance Praise
"In this moving novel, Mark Finley, our narrator, attempts to reconcile the pull of a place and the pull of an anguished heart. Loizeaux is a writer of profound insight and empathy."—Ron Rash, author of Serena: A Novel
"This powerful novel is not just about its characters. It’s about something more. It evolves into a story about life itself, about how to balance in the storms, about the unpredictable and unrepeatable circumstances of a life lived fully and well in spite of our will, in spite of our plans. As with all of William Loizeaux’s work, this novel is written from the heart, deeply moving and memorable."—Robert Bausch, author of A Hole in the Earth
Praise for Loizeaux’s Anna: A Daughter’s Life . . .
"Powerful . . . this is honest writing . . . that allows for humor, and that tracks the process of becoming a parent and the process of bereavement with extraordinary precision."—New York Times Book Review
"Stunningly clear-eyed and lyrical . . . the economy and beauty of his words give this book a kind of illuminating grace."—Washington Post Book World
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780815610427 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
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