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What a find for this hiker. I happened upon this book by chance, and I'm so glad I did. It's a quick read in the very best way. The pages practically turn themselves, but the story never feels thin. The style is engaging and keeps the pace brisk and the story feeling immediate and true. Every character is real and raw, the kind of people you can't stop thinking about after you've closed the book. Beautiful.
“The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post
“A literary thriller of the highest order” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
A bold, big encompassing work of fiction, spanning many years and moving from Japan to America to North Korea. The characters are vivid and original, and the story goes to deep and unpredictable places physically and emotionally. Full of surprises, packed with humanity and history, it's a book you'll think about long after you read the last page.
