The Last Island Almanac - by Bob Stevens (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

"I can no longer survive the presence of memories. They are too strong and I'm much too weak."

The Last Island Almanac records the four seasons of the final year of an old man's life. Alone, haunted, haunting, the fabric of the natural world around him slowly frays and evidence mounts that he is the last man, on the last island, in a departing world.

Review Quotes

"In this wondrous minding and "unminding" of a unique narrator, Stevens creates a gritty loner who will become beloved in his rogue but ever observant attention to his simultaneously diminishing and expanding world. May we all be so lucky." -Anne-Marie Oomen, Michigan Author Award 2023-24, Michigan Notable Book Award recipient

"Bob Stevens applies a master's touch to the Last Island Almanac. The reader enters an unsettling world of strange beauty, described in the words of a poetic spirit making a last stand. The braiding of real and unreal in this enigmatic place will haunt readers long after they put the book down." -Dave Dempsey, Michigan Author Award 2009, Michigan Notable Book Award recipient