Finalist for Foreword€s 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction

"[Nahoonkara]…incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction, but nothing that pulls the reader out of the fictional dream."
-Robin Martin,Gently Read Literature

"Departing from traditional narrative form, Grandbois moves masterfully between first, second, and third persons to invite readers into a textual visualization of how individual choices affect the well-being of the community." -Review of Contemporary Fiction

"Peter Grandbois is a splendid writer I intend to follow very closely.€
-Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain

"Vividly drawn, exquisitely crafted, Nahoonkara bespeaks not just the promise of its author, but also his undeniable power.€-Laird Hunt, author of Ray of the Star

“Peter Grandbois has created an original world…and peopled it with a family portrayed vividly and with intense emotion and compassion.€-Sheila Kohler, O.Henry award winning author of Cracks and Becoming Jane Eyre

In the tradition of nature writers Rick Bass and Annie Dillard, award winning writer Peter Grandbois€ new novel Nahoonkara opens up an oneiric space of wonder, a place outside preconceived notions of reality and identity, a place where we are free to re-imagine ourselves.