Covered With Snow

Three years after his brother's death in Vietnam, Otis Fletcher runs out of options and goes underground. The only person who knows where the former Massachusetts high school wrestling champ runner-up has gone is a woman he's never met: Calia Doe Leuchter, an orphaned Nebraska waitress from Brooklyn-and she thinks he's her fiancé.Ulrich Sterbender-the only son of aging missionaries stuck behind the Berlin Wall-was on his way to a new job scouting the Alaska pipeline when the accident happened. Otis finds his draft card and his world brightens, but a letter from Calia turns it upside down. As 1970 draws to a chilly close, Otis must decide how much truth matters, choose whose life he's living, and learn the true cost of making things right.Fifty years later, when Professor Cece Paine stumbles across a frozen body in a crevasse in the Canadian Rockies, she faces questions she never imagined.Art Hutchinson's sprawling first novel retakes ground from the shopworn 1960s mantras of peace, love, and freedom to recast that pivotal epoch as redemptive gospel-adventure-romance family saga.