Oslo, Maine

Name: Oslo, Maine
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Marcia Butler
ISBN: 9781696602969

Author: Marcia Butler

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

A moose walks into a rural Maine town called Oslo. Pierre Roy, a brilliant twelve-year-old, loses his memory in an accident. Three families are changed for worse and better as they grapple with trauma, marriage, ambition, and their fraught relationship with the natural world.

Oslo, Maine inspects the strengths and limitations of seven average yet extraordinary people as they reckon with their considerable collective failure around Pierre's accident. Alliances unravel. Long held secrets are exposed. And throughout, the ever-present moose is the linchpin that drives this richly drawn story, filled with heartbreak and hope, to its unexpected conclusion.

About Marcia Butler

Marcia Butler, a former professional oboist and interior designer, is a documentary film maker and author of the memoir The Skin Above My Knee and debut novel, Pickle's Progress. With her second novel, Oslo, Maine, Marcia draws on indelible memories of performing for fifteen years at a chamber music festival in central Maine. While there, she came to love the diverse topography, the earnest and quirky people, and especially the majestic and endlessly fascinating moose who roam, at their perpetual peril, among the humans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judith on February 28, 2021

If you like quirky stories with dysfunctional yet lovable and very relatable characters set in small towns, this might be a cool next read for you. The moose’s presence in this novel is not a quirky, funny plot device like the moose that finds itself on Africa‘s shores in Doug Sacrison‘s The Gelatin......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on November 09, 2020

I enjoyed Butler’s debut Pickle’s Progress, so I figured I’d check out latest. With this sophomore effort, the author switches gears significantly and takes readers from NYC of Pickle to Oslo, Maine. A town too small to register with anyone but its occupants, seven of which are the protagonists of t......more

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau on February 02, 2021

via my blog: [URL not allowed] 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐬𝐥𝐨, 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. This is one of those novels that makes you feel raw from the ugliness of some of the characters. Without a doubt they are flawed. If Pierre is an embarrassment to his......more