By Corina Bernstein'The Orchardist' is Amanda Coplin's debut novel.
By Corina Bernstein
'The Orchardist' is Amanda Coplin's debut novel.
The Orchardistby Amanda CoplinHarper, 448 pp., $25.99On sale Aug. 21What it's about: A debut novel set at the beginning of the 20th century in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, where a solitary orchard owner takes in two teenage sisters who are very scared and very pregnant.
Why it's notable: Listed in Publishers Weekly's "Top 10 Literary Fiction" of the season and O magazine's "10 Titles to Pick Up."Memorable line: "One hundred dollars a piece, the poster said, for the captureof two girls called Jane and Della. To be returned to James Michaelson of Okanogan, Washington."The author:Quick bio: Coplin, 31, grew up in Wenatchee, Wash., "the Apple Capital of the World," and has degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland, Ore., with her partner, Ted Salk, a forestry ecologist, who "helped with all the trees in the book."Her inspiration: Her grandfather, Dwayne Sanders, an orchardist and "gentle man," who died in 1994.Literary influences: Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner for their "strange way of being spare and lush at the same time."For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com. View the original article here
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