{"id":2877,"date":"2017-08-11T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/president\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:04:45","slug":"the-passenger-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/president\/2017\/08\/11\/the-passenger-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passenger. A Novel."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lisa Lutz<\/h2>\n

Simon & Schuster, 2016<\/h4>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t tell a book by its cover, but sometimes you pluck one off the new bookshelf at Rolvaag Library because it looks interesting and you win. \u00a0That\u2019s what happened to me with <\/span>The <\/span><\/i>Passenger. It\u2019s a great thriller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nora Glass grew up in a small town in Washington state, the victim of a cruel conspiracy that forced her to go on the run as a teenager to avoid a trumped up murder charge. This novel is the story of her life on the run, of her methods of survival, of the cost to her of the life she has to lead, and of her return home.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re wanted for murder you can\u2019t go around using your own name, driver\u2019s license, and social security number, nor can you even look like yourself. \u00a0During her life on the lam Nora is forced to adopt other people\u2019s identities\u2014women whose wallets she steal from their purses, women she identifies from obituaries who are about her age, and so forth. \u00a0Each section of this novel bears the stolen identity she is using at that time\u2014Tanya Dubois, Amelia Keen, Debra Maze, Emma Lark, Sonia Lubovich, Paige, Jo, and finally the return to Nora Glass.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lisa Lutz has mastered the tough girl narrative style you might expect from a tough girl like Nora: \u201cI spoke to the desk clerk. She couldn\u2019t have been older than nineteen. This didn\u2019t look like a stop along the way\u2014she was doing hard time at Swan Lake.\u201d It\u2019s Sam Spade\u2019s hard-eyed world-weariness and cynicism reborn in Nora Glass. But as with Sam Spade there\u2019s more going on beneath the surface of that world-weariness that you might think. <\/span><\/p>\n

Read this tough, tightly written, cleverly plotted, compelling thriller and you\u2019ll find out what that is. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the Bookshelf<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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