The Raven's Gift ---- A Novel from Penguin Canada

Alaska author Don Rearden's debut novel The Raven's Gift, coming from Penguin Canada, to be released January 25th, 2011.

www.donrearden.com in association with Front Range Web

Order from Penguin Canada, Chapters Indigo, or Amazon Canada ISBN 9780143173335

THE RAVEN'S GIFT

"If you're not scared, be scared: Don Rearden's The Raven's Gift will propel you pell-mell into a terrifying future of plague on the Alaskan tundra—all too real if you've talked with elders who survived 1917—all too frightening if you have sense to know this future can start five minutes from now."
—Seth Kantner author of Ordinary Wolves

"The Raven's Gift has a winning plot, characters we've never met before, and intriguing details of a world most of us will never venture to -- creating a read that opens our eyes and finds the fault lines of a heart in one breathless sitting."
— Jodi Picoult, New York Times Bestselling Author

"Rearden's fresh, new voice is a kaleidoscope of cultural collision and the astonishing landscape of the heart."
— Ron Spatz, Editor. Alaska Quarterly Review

"A many layered Alaskan intrigue which is gritty and engaging and an absolutely good read . . . all in a world, that Alaskan world -- which I could believe."
— Ron Carlson, author The Speed of Light, Five Skies, News of the World

"Don Rearden's writing is captivating and new. This is a writer who has many books in him. I predict he will be widely read, well respected, and greatly admired."
— Jo-Ann Mapson, author of bestselling novels Bad Girl Creek, The Wilder Sisters, and Hank & Chloe, author of bestselling novels Bad Girl Creek, The Wilder Sisters, and Hank & Chloe

"Take a remote Alaskan village, add a dedicated teacher, toss in a plague. The Raven's Gift is a page turner with a message: We Alaskans are lost if we cannot find our own way."
— Bill Streever, author of Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

"In The Raven's Gift, Don Rearden has created a kind of allegory for a people and place at risk, a generous and honest portrait of Yup'ik communities. His Alaska is one you won't yet have seen."
— David Vann, author of bestselling novels Legend of a Suicide and A Mile Down

Order yours today from http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0143173332?tag=donrea-20&camp=8641&creative=3...

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