Bestselling, award-winning novelist, LEIF ENGER, a story-teller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), will discuss his most recent novel, I Cheerfully Refuse.

Set in a not-too-distant America roiled by climate change and societal collapse, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician, the affable Rainy, who sets sail across Lake Superior in search of his departed, bookseller wife. The Gulliver-like challenges of life on a turbulent sea grow into something wide and wild, sweeping up friends and foes alike in its strengthening wake. I Cheerfully Refuse is a harrowing nautical tale buoyed by beauty and unexpected kindness—a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.