Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing life in her father’s house, a narrow trailer in northern Minnesota. In this landscape of “flat green and gold,” there are few humans but many deer and barn cats and innumerable horses; people travel on country roads in trucks and on bikes, and, in one case, “riding a swaybacked Appaloosa.” But there’s more to Annika’s ennui than simple lack of social life. An affecting character study set in an evocative landscape, Annika Rose plumbs the depths of a lonely childhood marked by grief and offers no easy answers to big questions: To what extent should parents lean on children?