Virgil Wander: Lake Wobegon Meets Twin Peaks

Stacey Goldring
Nov 3 · 3 min read

The further I wandered into Leif Enger’s most recent novel Virgil Wander, I kept thinking, “My God, this man clearly did well on the vocab portion of the GRE.” A few pages deeper, “Definitely an NPR listener.” By about 50 pages committed, I was convinced Enger had read Walker Percy’s The Movie Goer. Maybe a Shelby Foote, or two.

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Stacey Goldring

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Writer, Literature Commentator@NPR WJCT, Founder, Searching For Identity Foundation, Guest Lecturer@University of Florida, Doc Filmmaker

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