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The Turtle Catcher by Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A standout fiction debut by a prize-winning young writer whose memoir, The Summer of Ordinary Ways, was a favorite of critics and booksellers Nicole Helgets fierce and lyrical memoir of growing up on a Minnesota dairy farm received widespread acclaim. People magazine hailed the young authors ability to take the messiest of lives and fashion something beautiful.Here, in her first novel,Helget turns her extraordinary sensibility to a haunting love story with a heinous crime at its core. In a rural Minnesota town of German immigrants in the tumultuous days ofWorldWar I, The Turtle Catcher brings together two misfits from warring clans. Liesel, the one girl in the upstanding family of Richter boys, harbors a secret about her body that thwarts all hope for a normal life.Her closest friend is Lester, the slow boy in the raffish Sutter family, a gentle, kind soul who spends his days trapping turtles in the lake. Yearning for human touch in the wake of her parents deaths, Liesel turns to her only friendleading her brother, just returned from the war, to an act that will haunt not only both families but the entire town. Helgets novel is a story of loyalty and betrayal that, like her earlier

Who reads The Turtle Catcher?

Author

Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976-

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ; Melia [distributor

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547248004

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.52 / 5 (692 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14