Nancy Pearl Picks A First-Time Novelist With Quite The Journey To Tell

KUOW | By Marcie Sillman

Published January 20, 2015 at 2:19 PM AKST

Atlantic coast ocean jersey shore — A woman decies to walk from Canada's Great Plains to the Atlantic coast in "Etta and Otto and Russel and James."

Marcie Sillman speaks with beloved librarian Nancy Pearl about the book pick of the week by Canadian writer Emma Hooper, a first-time novelist. Called "Etta and Otto and Russell and James," it is about a middle-aged woman who decides to walk from her home on Canada's Great Plains all the way to the Atlantic coast.