ABOUT THE AUTHOR
W. S. Winslow was born and raised in Maine but spent most of her working life in San Francisco and New York in corporate communications and marketing. A ninth-generation Mainer, she now spends most of the year in a small town Downeast. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in French from the University of Maine and an MFA from NYU. Her fiction has been published in Yemassee Journal and Bird’s Thumb. The Northern Reach is her first novel. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Map
Mother Ship
Runaway
Yield
Home Front
Starvation Diet
Two-Step (Hide Your Eyes or Lie)
Planting Tiger
Striptease
Smoke Signals in the Aftertime
Trinity
Requiem (For the Unburied)
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE NORTHERN REACH. Copyright © 2021 by W. S. Winslow. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
www.flatironbooks.com
“Trinity” first appeared in Bird’s Thumb in October 2018.
“Mother Ship” first appeared in Yemassee Journal in Fall 2017.
Cover designed by Sara Wood
Cover photographs: coastline © Dermot Conlan/Getty Images; woman © Igor Ustynskyy/Getty Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Winslow, W. S., author.
Title: The northern reach / W. S. Winslow.
Description: First edition. | New York : Flatiron Books, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020040975 | ISBN 9781250776488 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250776495 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Maine—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3623.I6644 N67 2021 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040975
eISBN 9781250776495
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