Heartbroke Bay

A powerful literary debut inspired by a true story.

In 1898, Alaska is an untamed wilderness with an unforgiving climate. At the tail end of a world-wide depression, thousands of destitute people are drawn north by rumors of easy wealth coming out of the remote claims of the Gold Rush. Many of the pilgrims are unprepared for the hardships that await them and find nothing but a desolate landscape already pillaged of its riches by those who came before.

Hannah Nelson, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is one of the late arrivals. After following her husband to a glacier-wracked fjord in the company of three equally desperate men, she discovers that gold is only one of the desires that can consume a person's soul...

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/02/2010
ISBN: 9780425236802
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.07w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/06/2010
Booklist 10/01/2010 pg. 36