Lost in grief, Terra Johnson searches for peace at her family’s cabin in the quaint town of Notre Lac nestled in the Northern Great Lakes region. Instead, she finds the nearly deserted tourist town on the verge of being bulldozed by a mine to dig up the iron ore underneath it. Recruited into efforts to save the town, she finds “saving” Notre Lac isn’t as simple as she’d imagined—especially when everyone has a different vision of what it means to be saved.
While adjusting to the gorgeous but unforgiving climate of the Northwoods, Terra joins the community of kind, resilient and complex people in Notre Lac and learns about hope, healing, and forging a way forward through change. She discovers the power of community and what it means to preserve it. And as Terra navigates her way through her own grief, she learns when to fight for what she loves, and when to let it go.
Tourist Information is scheduled to be published by Holy Cow! Press in October 2027.
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A special thank you…
The story development for this novel was strengthened by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
The grant provided this project with the resources to hire a sensitivity reader to review the Indigenous perspectives of the people who live and work in Notre Lac. Thank you to the generosity of Jonathan Thunder, who shared his invaluable perspective with this project.
