Downlanders is a new novel from Frank Haberle.
Downlanders is an adventure story that follows five ill-equipped 1980s misfits into ‘the last great wilderness’ in search of adventure, or fortune, or redemption. As is often the case, the wilderness has other ideas.
Downlanders is published in November, 2023, with Minneapolis-based Flexible Press. If you are inclined to pre-order please visit Bookshop here.
10% of the proceeds of the book go to the Creative Center for Health and Healing at University Settlement, where Frank has been a volunteer for the last 15 years. Check them out here.
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What people are saying
“In Frank Haberle’s Downlanders, bad decisions abound as hippies and adverse misfits stumble through a beautiful wilderness looking for an easy way out. In the end, nature wins–a revelation that today’s climate deniers should take to heart.”
—Terese Svoboda, author of Dog on Fire
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going. This is the war cry of those fearless enough to venture into the Grizzle Peninsula, an area way up north, where the main employers are fishing boats, canneries, and the pipeline. Some intrepid (or desperate) ‘downlanders’—people from the Lower 48—are determined to try their luck here. Never an easy place to live, the Peninsula remains as uninviting as ever, and the question becomes, who will make it and who won’t? Frank Haberle’s novel answers these questions by bringing us into a wilderness where success is measured by how long one can survive.”
—Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Tricks of Light
“Grizzletown, a place built from panic and the blood of men stripped of their dignities,
is both real and imagined, a place mythical in its beauty, desolate and haunting.”
—Esther Alix, author of the Stories of Gabriel.
“Frank Haberle’s lively storytelling and vibrant language highlight this unlikely quest into the wilderness you won’t soon forget.”
—Vincent Wyckoff, author of the Black Otter Bay mystery series
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