Oslo, Maine

High praise for Oslo, Maine!"Wildly plotted, astutely observed, and brimming with wit."—Adrienne Brodeur"I raced through this novel in one breathless sitting!"—Karen Dionne"Marcia Butler is a master dramatist, a sorceress, and extraordinary novelist."—E.J. Levy"Oslo, Maine is richly satisfying."—Bill Roorbach 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. Meet Claude Roy, Pierre's blustery and proud fourth-generation Maine father who cannot, or will not, acknowledge the too real and frightening fact of his son's injury. And his wife, Celine, a once-upon-a-time traditional housewife and mother who descends into pills as a way of coping. Enter...