I Cheerfully Refuse

A career defining tour-de-force from New York Timesbestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) authorof Peace Like a River Leif Enger.A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (MinneapolisStar Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Likea River which sold over a million copies and captured readers' heartsaround the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author'saccomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, ICheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarkingunder sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeplybeloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encounteringlunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on landan increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire rulingclass, crumbled infrastruc