Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (July 2008)
320 pages, eBook (purchased myself for $9.78)
Book Rating: 4 Stars
Content Note: Includes Swearing, Sexual Situations and Violence
While hunting with his Dad, Jesse hears a single shot and finds his Dad dead, apparently from suicide, but Jesse has to consider other possibilities when his father’s ghost visits him and tells him he didn’t kill himself. The wide range of emotions 17-year-old Jesse goes through during the course of this story was awesome, and very realistic, given the impossible situation he found himself in. While there are obvious Hamlet references, the story doesn’t hold slavishly to it, and allows this story to take its own shape and make its own end. The mutually supportive relationship that existed between Jesse and his girlfriend, Christine, flowed so naturally from everything that was going on, that I couldn’t help but be awed by it. Great read!
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