Freedom

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams…

Literary Awards

Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2013), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (2011), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2010), Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2010)