This magnificent desolation

Description:

Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost in the snowy expanse of northern Minnesota. Aged ten, he cannot remember his life to this point, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him.

subjects: Loss (Psychology) in children,  Mothers and sons,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Abandoned children,  Fiction,  Loneliness in children,  Veterans,  Imagination in children,  Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664,  Imagination,  NEW LIST 20130531,  Orphanages,  Fiction, psychological,  Mothers and sons, fiction,  San francisco (calif.), fiction,  Minnesota, fiction,  Veterans, fiction,  New York Times reviewed

Places: San Francisco (Calif.),  Minnesota