
Following in the tradition of Mark Twain's cherished classics Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Time and The Place is a poignant story of a boy's coming of age in the America of the 1940s. Despised by his father, David --- known to all as Junior --- finds solace in his summers at his grandparents' farm, "The Place," where he confronts death, loss, love, and the tangled web of family history. Will Goede's previous novel, Quantrill, was a finalist for the B.C. Book Prize, while his story collection Life in Beijing was a finalist for the Edith Wilson Prize in literary fiction.
"Throughout the novel Goede meditates on life and loss through coming-of-age stories and the music of language. Time and The Place is a window into small town life in the 1940s that pulls together reflections of regret, desire, and a hindsight clarity of what could have been. This bildungsroman reads like a fictional memoir as Junior recollects his early days in the U.S., connecting with the ghosts of his Mennonite family who farm the family property known simply as The Place.... Unlike his uncles and aunts, Junior finds a way out from the gravity of The Place with his love of music, and through Time and The Place, Goede strives for the light through memorable storytelling." ---Joe Enns, BC Review