Etta and Otto and Russell and James
82-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 3,232 kilometres from Saskatchewan to Halifax. Her husband Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. I will try to remember to come back, Etta writes. Russell, raised as a brother to Otto, has loved Etta from afar for 60 years. He insists on finding Etta, wherever she's gone. Leaving his farm will be the first act of defiance in his whole life.
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- ISBN: 9780143190004
- Physical Description 305 p. ; 24 cm
- Publisher Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2015.
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Finalist for the 2017 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors " Etta and Otto and Russell and James is incredibly moving, beautifully written and luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one's faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!" --Chris Cleave, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Little Bee "I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back." Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently--and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto. Etta and Otto and Russell and James is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It is a story of love and joy, pain and passion, memory and forgetting--and one incredible journey.