A Good High Place

Reviewed by the Grand Rapids Press! Check it out here.

"Incredibly timely, despite the fact that much of it was set almost a hundred years ago. Filled with complex characters living in a changing world. This is a book for people for whom the act of reading a novel is an all-encompassing pastime. What will charm the reader most about Kimball is the compassion she has for her characters' weaknesses."-Amy Sumerton, Program Director of 826michigan


“Ortega y Gassett says, ‘Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are.’ The place itself—northern Michigan—bursts alive in L.E. Kimball’s wonderful debut novel, as do these unforgettable characters who inhabit its spirit and magic and grace. And the story so beautifully told that I read it in a single sitting, and then began reading it again.”—Jack Driscoll, author of How Like an Angel

“With poetry and spirit Kimball's words are like magic, moving fluently through time, multiple voices, and histories. Elk Rapids, Michigan is so intricately rendered it becomes another unforgettable character in this poignant tale about the wages of friendship, loss, and the heart in search of its rightful home. A thoroughly engaging novel and a luminous debut.”—Jaimee Wriston Colbert, author of Shark Girls

“If novels were bodies of water, A Good High Place would be a clear, rapid river running through the primeval forest of northern Michigan, revealing to its readers pools and eddies, places inhabited by love, loss, remembrance, and the ever elusive trout. L. E. Kimball’s story is written with grace and ease as it explores what was and, hopefully, what will always be true about our at once forbidding and generous American landscape.”—John Smolens, author of The Anarchist

Beautiful writing, unforgettable characters, a complex, fascinating story line as well as lovely descriptions of northern Michigan landscapes and histories bring this book to the top of my list. A Good High Place is the tender tale of the lives of two women, Native American Kachina and white Luella, who are drawn to each other yet conflicted by their cultures, an unspoken family connection and even love for the same man. Both women have their own deep spirituality to guide them as they grow into adulthood, see family members sent to the Traverse City Asylum, experience the coming end of the logging era, and watch the gradual decline of Luella's father's steamship business.

~ Jill Webb, Cottage Books

Northport Books Review: Click Here

Update 10/16/12: L.E.K. will be published in Natural Bridge Literary Journal (University of Missouri) for her piece, "Charity: A Memoir" this spring!

Update 2/22/12: L.E.K. was a Foreward Book of the Year Finalist 2010

LE.K. has also made the A-list!!! See below!

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"The Love-Charr"- Gray's Sporting Journal

Fly Fishing Edition

Published April 2012!

Signings and Events

New Events for 2012

Link to UP Book Tour 

You can now buy A Good High Place at Snowbound Books!

snowboundbooks.com

June 24th- 1:00, Signing

 Snowbound Books

118 N Third Street

Marquette, MI

906-428-4448

www.snowboundbooks.com

June 30th- 1:00-3:00pm

Tahquamenon Area Public School Library

700  Newberry Avenue

Newberry, MI

49868

906-293-3780

http://tahquamenon.eup.k12.mi.us/6694441211121734

Past Events

October 1st- 1:00,  Reading, Portage Lake District Library

58 Huron Street

Houghton, MI

49931

906-482-4570

http://www.pldl.org

May 29th  - Book signing, Horizon Bookstore, Traverse City, MI

243 East Front Street

Traverse City, MI

231-946-7290

July 8th - Book signing, Horizon Bookstore, Traverse City, MI

July 24th - Book signing, Schuler Book Store  noon – 4 p.m.

 Schuler Book Store

1982 W. Grand River Ave.

 Okemos, MI 48864 517-349-8840

July 29th- Book Signing, Leelanau Books 1 p.m - 3 p.m.