John Smolens
Author of Cold: A Novel
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John Smolens is the director of Northern Michigan University's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.
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During a blizzard, Norman Haas walks away from his prison work detail completely undetected. He is on a mission to travel back home and back to the past in order to right some wrongs. He encounters a woman who tries to help him but he ends up leaving her alone in the snow, he reunites with his old girlfriend and her daughter and they travel even further north to her father’s wilderness lodge where secrets are buried and confrontations await. Tracking Norman, Constable Del Makki realizes that there is more going on here than simply a walkaway prisoner seeking freedom but by the time he puts all the pieces together, it’s too late to prevent tragedy.
Unfortunately I found Cold overly melodramatic. The narrative was uneven in style, irregular in quality and the ending was entirely too predictable. On the bright side, I did enjoy the snow clad setting.… (more)