Virgil Wander - by Leif Enger

Virgil Wander is a captivating and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.

After surviving a car accident into icy Lake Superior, movie house owner Virgil Wander begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals.

With intelligent humor and captivating whimsy, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district.

Virgil Wander is a swift, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller.