Correcting the Landscape
by Marjorie Kowalski Cole

Bob Greene himself fully enjoyed "Correcting the Landscape" by Marjorie Kowalski Cole, the winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction. He says, it is:

A subtle, moving story about Alaska, progress, love, and preservation (among others) that has received enormous critical acclaim.

Marjorie Kowalski Cole, in her award-winning novel, brings to life those folks who prefer the North with all its charms, problems, and eccentricities. Snow, ice, and how to live in and with nature both beautiful and hostile are prominent features of "Correcting the Landscape."

Cole's characters are funny, hardworking, lovesick and in love, strapped for money, in need of a job and one that pays - in short, they live the full experience of daily life. Even the minor characters are unforgettable.

"Correcting the Landscape" is about love, cold, public art, the landscape, money, small business, jobs and the lack thereof, journalism, taking a stand, and the minutiae of daily life - all of the sub-plots of real life, woven together to make a profound story with a rousing finish.