We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Leif Enger, the award-winning author of "Peace Like a River," returns with a strange, alluring novel, "I Cheerfully ...

Cover art for “I Cheerfully Refuse” owned by Grove Atlantic. Whoever wrote the jacket blurb for Leif Enger’s “I Cheerfully Refuse” seems to have read a different novel than I did. The book’s jacket ...

Leif Enger has been great at describing nature as far back as his debut novel, “Peace Like a River,” in 2001. But it took moving within spitting distance of Lake Superior before he could put that ...

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“I Cheerfully Refuse” is a modern-day retelling of the myth of Orpheus, the musician who traveled to the underworld to rescue his wife. Set in an all-too-possible near future along Lake Superior, Leif ...