Book description
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a remote stretch of Northwest
America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots
as if they were his children.
One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the market. Feral, scared
and very pregnant, they follow Talmadge to his land and form an unlikely
attachment to his gentle way of life.
But their fragile peace is shattered when armed men arrive in the
orchard. In the tragedy that unfolds, Talmadge must fight to save the
lives of those he has learned to love while confronting the ghosts of
his own troubled past.
THE ORCHARDIST is an astonishing and unforgettable epic about a man who
disrupts the lonely harmony of his life when he opens his heart and lets
the world in. Amanda Coplin was born in 1981 in Wenatchee, Washington,
a town famous for its orchards. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of Minnesota and now lives in Minneapolis. THE
ORCHARDIST is her first novel.
