Otto Bookstore

Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s.  I overheard Alissa recommending the new book, Touch, with such a tender, loving tone in her voice, I wanted to find out what I’d been missing.  So I read it too.  And first I encountered snow—lots of it!  And then I met hard working men and close knit family and the tragedy that turned their lives upside down.  And then came the storytellers who passed down the mythic encounters in the deep snow-filled woods and the unbelievable trials of Canadian winters, in one of which, the whole town was buried under snow that didn’t melt until July!  And I met the near-mythic founder of the town who comes back years after his wife died in search of her—has he lost his mind?  No, he says, in looking as his grandson’s face and in searching the town and woods where he loved his wife he finds her in his reawakened memories.  When asked “Is there a happy ending?” Alissa replied “Not really, there’s just great storytelling!  When I finished it, I held it close to me and then I started reading it again.”  If you like to be carried away by a “great” storyteller, read Touch, by Alexi Zentner.  You’ll find it at Otto’s, a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport.   

Touch (Hardcover)

By Alexi Zentner

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780393079876
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 4/2011

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