Book Review: Thomas McGuire’s second novel is as lyrical, intelligent and suspenseful as his first
By Nancy Lord
Updated: September 14, 2024Published: September 14, 2024
“The Curve of Equal Time”
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By Thomas McGuire; Boreal Books, 2024; 192 pages; $16.95.
Thomas McGuire, author of the 2019 award-winning novel “Steller’s Orchid,” has returned with a new novel of matching excellence. A longtime Alaskan, McGuire has applied his 30 years of commercial fishing to a story that’s part mystery, part crime, and entirely true to Alaska life. As he said in an interview with his publisher, “I wrote the book to express my deep feelings for the place and the people.”