The Proprietor's Song
"A truly original and effervescent writer.” —Stephanie Cowell, American Book Award recipient, author of Claude & Camille and The Boy in the Rain
Told in alternating stories, The Proprietor’s Song follows Innkeeper Stanley Uribe, tucked high up in California’s Sierras, as he tries to unravel the mysterious death of his sister Lorna, and Grace and Elwood Fisher, a comfortable, middle-aged couple from the Bay Area, who return every spring to Death Valley where their son Jared disappeared over spring break. At its core, The Proprietor’s Song is a novel about devastating grief and renewed hope, all set among some of California’s most remote and haunting landscapes.
Born and raised in the northeast, Janet Goldberg now lives in California’s Bay Area where she writes and teaches writing and spends her free time hiking and exploring the mountains and deserts of the greater West. She also serves as the fiction editor of the literary journal Deep Wild, and her own short fiction and poetry have been appeared in a wide range of journals.
