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Surprised in Spades by ‘Legends of the North Cascades’

Legends of the North Cascades

By Jonathan Evison (Algonquin Books, 2021)

Genre: Fiction

Pages (print): 338

Via: Library

Ever grab a book that surprised the stuffin’ outta you? You thought it was about one thing. But it turned out to be something else entirely?

That happened to Her Royal Momness and I the other day. Swooping into The Book Place, Mom only had about five minutes to snatch some new-to-her titles off the shelves. So, cuz she loves the Northwest and the Cascades are like, Totally Pawesome, she took a chance on an unfamiliar title and an author we’ve never heard of.

When the cloak of night descended, and they were awash in the light of the stars, spattered cold and white across the bowl of night, the world seemed all at once larger and more mysterious.

Were we ever surprised. Like this:

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