Black Woods, Blue Sky

Praise

“What a book—I am still enthralled and haunted. Black Woods, Blue Sky is a fable about what it is to love, a tale of longing, a call to renew our deepest bonds with the living world. It will draw you along like a fast-moving stream, and you will find yourself in places you have never been.”—Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Night Watchman and National Book Award–winning author of The Round House

“No one writes like Eowyn Ivey. Her voice is as enchanting as it is original and Black Woods, Blue Sky may be her best novel yet. A compelling story of love and forgiveness, it is also a page turner, creating a sense of foreboding in the vast Alaskan landscape that Ivey evokes with such passion and precision.”—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author of March, and New York Times bestselling author of Horse

“A stunning tale told by a master of her craft. Black Woods, Blue Sky is what skilled storytelling is supposed to be.”—Jason Mott, National Book Award winning author of Hell of a Book, and New York Times bestselling author of The Returned

“Written with love for the Alaskan landscape, Black Woods, Blue Sky is a dazzling and moving journey into the reaches of the wilderness and of the human heart. Ivey’s prose is pure and authentic, drawing you in to the richness of these characters and of their lives. This one will stay with you.”—Tiffany McDaniel, internationally bestselling author of Betty, On the Savage Side, and The Summer that Melted Everything

“Entrancing, tender, bold, and beautifully strange . . . In Black Woods, Blue Sky, Eowyn Ivey does again what she does so brilliantly: Out of myth she weaves a beautiful contemporary story to delight the senses, and keep us turning, page by page, to the astounding end. She makes us think about the space where man becomes nature, and how we learn only when we listen to the world beyond our own. I read with my heart in my mouth, and filled with wonder. This is a very special book.”—Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Benson’s Beetle

“Black Woods, Blue Sky is an enthralling novel about the endurance of love, the power of forgiveness, and the savage, irresistible allure of wild places.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Hour

“To be in the imagination of Eowyn Ivey is to be wrapped in the exquisite pelt of the wilderness.”—Jackie Morris, author of The White Fox