Into the Wilderness with Rhoda Goldman Book Group, San Francisco

“a perfectly gratifying read”

Into the Wilderness, hailed as “a fiercely intelligent love story,” is an award-winning novel about two sixty-somethings at inflection points in their lives.

Rose Mayer has just buried her second husband and wonders what she’s going to do with the rest of her life. Reluctantly, she visits her son’s summer place in Vermont, where there are neither sidewalks, Democrats, nor other Jews. She meets Percy Mendell at the Orton Fourth of July book sale and takes an immediate dislike.

Percy’s a born and bred Vermonter who has never married, never voted for a Democrat, and never left the state. After a satisfying career as the county’s agricultural agent, he’s facing retirement and doesn’t know what he’ll do unmoored from work. He meets Rose again at the Marlboro Music Festival, where music becomes their common language. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing politics and seasons, Into the Wilderness is testament to the endurance of the human heart.

This story of silver love is set in small-town Vermont in 1964, where “Luskin weaves together an enchanting tale of solitude, friendship, and romance.” ~The Jewish Advocate