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  • Martin Marten

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  • Written by: Brian Doyle
  • Narrated by: Travis Baldree
  • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Martin Marten

Written by: Brian Doyle
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Dave is 14 years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy'east). Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future not far off - a future away from his mother, father, his precocious younger sister, and the wilderness where he's lived all his life.

And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (of the mustelid family), is leaving his own mother and siblings and setting off on his own as well.

As Dave and Martin set off on their own adventures, their lives, paths, and trails will cross, weave, and blend. Why not come with them as they set forth into the forest and crags of Oregon's soaring mountain wilderness in search of life, family, friends, enemies, wonder, mystery, and good things to eat?

Martin Marten is a braided coming-of-age tale like no other, told in Brian Doyle's joyous, rollicking style.

©2015 Brian Doyle (P)2017 Tantor
Coming of Age Literary Fiction Genre Fiction
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Utterly Charming

If you love nature and animals, you’ll probably love this book. The feel of it is unlike anything I’ve read before. Its’s quiet, old-timey, funny, fairytale-esque, philosophical, and reverent. Almost like a series of nature essays with a thru-line of plot about both human and non-human characters, as told by an omniscient narrator. Yes there are LOTS of lists, and yes they’re over the top at times, but that’s really the only flaw. I found it relaxing and joyous.

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