The Sea of Minnesota

By Richard Schinnow

Harlan Norquist has lived all his fifty years on the richest farm in Freeborn County Minnesota but his wife, Clare, has left him, and a devastating drought has forced him to the brink of losing the only life he's ever known.With his last few thousand dollars he impetuously buys a sailboat, an act which his neighbors consider lunacy but gives Harlan hope for a new, unimagined life on the sea.Goaded by his wealthy, ex-father-in-law, Leo Vrieze, Harlan defiantly launches the boat onto his shrinking farm pond, an act that caroms through the novel as it moves from Leo's rage to Clare's desperate attempts to hold her lover, senatorial candidate, Karl Wolters, to an improbable explosion that sends Harlan and his boat down a dangerous, flooding river.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615847730
• ISBN13: 9780615847733
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Shell Rock River Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"