Wild Heavens

It all starts with an impossibly large set of tracks, footprints for a creature that could not possibly exist. The words sasquatch, bigfoot and yeti never occur in this novel, but that is what most people would call the hairy, nine-foot creature that would become a lifelong obsession for Aidan Fitzpatrick, and in turn, his granddaughter Sandy Langley.


The novel spans the course of single winter day, interspersed with memories from Sandy’s life—childhood days spent with her distracted, scholarly grandfather in a remote cabin in British Columbia’s interior mountains; later recollections of new motherhood; and then the tragic disappearance that would irrevocably shape the rest of her life, a day when all signs of the mysterious creature would disappear for thirty years. When the enigmatic tracks finally reappear, Sandy sets out on the trail alone, determined to find out the truth about the mystery that has shaped her life.


The Wild Heavens is an impressive and evocative debut, containing beauty, tragedy and wonder in equal parts.

Totul incepe cu un set imposibil de mare de urme, urme pentru o creatura care nu ar putea exista. Cuvintele sasquatch, bigfoot si yeti nu apar niciodata in acest roman, dar asta este ceea ce majoritatea oamenilor ar numi creatura paroasa de 9 picioare care ar deveni o obsesie pe tot parcursul vietii pentru Aidan Fitzpatrick si, la randul sau, nepoata sa Sandy Langley. cursul unei singure zile de iarna, intercalat cu amintiri din viata lui Sandy - zile din copilarie petrecute cu bunicul ei distrat, stiintific, intr-o cabana indepartata din muntii interiori ai Columbia Britanice; amintiri ulterioare ale unei noi maternitati; si apoi disparitia tragica care avea sa-i modeleze irevocabil restul vietii, o zi in care toate semnele misterioasei creaturi ar disparea timp de treizeci de ani.