Undercurrents

A Novel

By: Joan Maki

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Paperback | 10 September 2024

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Undercurrents, the debut novel from fifth-generation Montanan, Joan
Maki, examines the thresholds of twilight; its forest doorways and river
crossings, to dissect the emotional and psychological aftermath of Kit in the
wake of the mysterious disappearance of Patrick, a childhood friend who vanished so suddenly it was as if he fell into the Earth. Decades after this incident, Kit escapes her rural Montana upbringing for a new life in the city, but the
unsolved case and the nagging questions she has had to carry her whole life bind her to her past. Was Patrick claimed by natural forces,
falling into the river or a ravine? Did his abusive father have something to do
with it? Or, as old Marg believes, was the boy claimed by the "people of the
forest"? Will Kit be able to find closure as she raises her own child and is
inevitably drawn back toward the woods of home? Imbued with the Finnish concept
of metsanpeitto, loosely translated as "forest cover," Undercurrents charts
the liminal destruction of society and self where rural, wild places are encroached
upon by more contemporary forces. Like a story written on a warped mirror, Undercurrents
presents a calm surface slightly askew, and definitely dangerous, where the mind, lore, religion, and reality collide in its uncanny reflections.

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