Lucky Turtle by Bill Roorbach

?Two great love affairs?one between characters, the other with the wilds of Montana as its original inhabitants knew it?surge through this engaging, audacious novel. Every page hums with life and energy.? ?Andrea Barrett, author of?The Voyage of the Narwhal?and?Archangel Bill Roorbach?is back with an immersive love story of two kindred souls in a world determined?to?tear them apart. When Cindra?Zoeller, sixteen, is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she?s a young,?privileged white girl?who has evaded more severe punishment for her crime. Even?at Camp Challenge, she gets special?treatment, unlike the punishment many of?the girls face. She becomes transfixed by Lucky, a watchful,?capable, and mysterious?camp employee, and as the connection between them grows stronger, Lucky and?Cindra quickly become lovers. They escape into the Rocky Mountains and create?an idyllic life, living off?Lucky?s vast knowledge of the wilderness. But they can run?from the outside world for only so long, and