Quinnehtukqut

By Joshua Harmon

Fiction. Set in a region of northern New Hampshire that in the 1830s declared itself an independent nation, JoshuaHarmon's debut novel traces the real and imagined travels of Martha Hennessy, a girl wishing for a life beyond her family's farm. QUINNEHTUKQUT interweaves Martha's story with those of dreamers and drifters whose lives intersect hers: an American soldier scarred by the first World War, a mythical and murderous tramp seeking lost Indian gold, a man haunted by his memories of Byrd's expeditions to Antarctica, an industrialist longing to become a woodsman, and an old woman forced to leave her home due to the planned flooding of a valley. A vivid study of the New England landscape, QUINNEHTUKQUT reveals how people inhabit place and how place inhabits people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978881125
• ISBN13: 9780978881122
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Starcherone Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A thoughtful composite portrait of diverse and colorful personalities

Set in the northern area of New Hampshire that once declared itself an independent nation, Quinnehtukqut is a novel about the real and illusory trials facing Martha Hennessy, a girl wishing to experience life past her humdrum family farm. Author and teacher Joshua Harmon weaves together a diverse assembly of characters, from a haunted veteran of World War I to an old woman forced to vacate her home due to the planned flooding of a valley, to an industrialist yearning to become a woodsman. A thoughtful composite portrait of diverse and colorful personalities and their connections to the land itself.