Hooper places us in a world that doesn’t entirely overlap with our own, and the novel is perhaps best read as an extended fairytale-in the wild, Etta meets James, a coyote who talks and sings cowboy songs when no one else is around. Regina Marler - New York Times Book Review Hooper…has more or less nailed the Amélie charm with this sweet, disarming story of lasting love…Hooper shows great restraint in balancing the quirky with the universal, blurring the lines between them… steady hand creates the perfect setup for the unexpected. She lives in Bath, UK, but goes home to Canada to cross-country ski whenever she can. A musician, Emma performs as the solo artist Waitress for the Bees and plays with a number of bands.
Raised in Alberta, Canada, Emma Hooper brought her love of music and literature to the UK, where she received a doctorate in Musico-Literary studies at the University of East-Anglia and currently lectures at Bath Spa University. Otto, who knows in his heart that Etta must do as her own heart dictates, diverts his unease and sadness by taking up the craft of papier-mâché, at which he excels and the two men await the outcome of Etta’s quest. Now eighty-three-year-old Etta makes her way on foot toward Halifax in the east, taking on as a companion a somewhat tame coyote, whom she names James her friend Russell, hoping to dissuade her from her mission, tracks her down, but she refuses to turn back and goes on undeterred. Thereafter the three shared a warm friendship into their latter years. Russell supported Etta emotionally when she suffered a devastating loss, but Etta chose Otto, not Russell, as her husband. Then World War II came, when Otto and every other young man in town (except Russell, because of his disability) was called to serve.Īs time passed, Etta read of Otto’s experiences in the war during a tender correspondence between them, which blossomed into romance when the young man returned on leave. Thereafter they alternated days at the schoolhouse, which was run by a young teacher, Etta Gloria Kinnick. The two men had formed a deep bond as boys after an accident on a tractor left Russell partially crippled.
When their beloved neighbor Russell Palmer learns from Otto that she has left, he embarks on a mission to find her.
She will return if she can she has never seen water and has gone to find the ocean. Otto Vogel wakes before dawn on his farm in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to find a letter from his wife, Etta.
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