{"product_id":"the-seaplane-on-final-approach-9780593314029","title":"The Seaplane on Final Approach","description":"\u003cb\u003eA libidinous young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this hilarious and sensual novel \"about people who belong everywhere and nowhere and the vast, unknowable wilderness of desire.... Sexy and dark and strange and absolutely perfect\" (Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/i\u003e).\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper. But she's also busy gleefully nursing twin obsessions: building a working theory of what constitutes \"sleaze\" and pursuing a young fisherman she deems the embodiment of all things deliciously sleazy. Her plans become more perverse and elaborate, even as life on Lavender Island starts to unravel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy midseason, it becomes clear that Stu, the jovial, predatory patriarch of the lodge, has turned his sexual attentions to another young employee. As the mood of the lodge spirals into chaos, the inhabitants realize just how isolated Lavender Island really is. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHilarious, sensual, and charged with menace, \u003ci\u003eThe Seaplane on Final Approach\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly illuminates the mirage-thin line between the artificial and the feral. In this daring and psychologically razor-sharp debut, Rukeyser's characters tear aside the facade of good manners to reveal all of our deepest needs and naked desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593314029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.81d","brand":"Rebecca Rukeyser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42843587084469,"sku":"9780593314029","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e366b964-ba3c-4c9a-8782-cb1762186886.jpg?v=1681811871","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-seaplane-on-final-approach-9780593314029","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}