… Inga Henriksen must make a journey. She must return to 1986, the summer she turned fourteen. She knows if you want to change the future, you must first rescue the past. She knows a great wrong which must be made right …
When Inga and Pete lose their parents to a tragic accident, they go to live on their grandparents’ hog farm in Sanpete County, Utah. There, Inga’s grandmother teaches her an ancient tradition of folk magic which has been in her family for over a thousand years, passed from mother to daughter, generation after generation. It is a magic made of history and family and Pagan Gods, and a prophetic vision of a Viking funeral, a fire upon the waters of Yuba Lake. But the summer of 1986, the summer Inga turns fourteen, her grandmother wanders into a storm that will forever change the lives of everyone in her family.
In the aftermath, Inga struggles to reconcile with what Grandma called “the deep magic.” She is haunted by Grandma’s vision of a Viking funeral, convinced it is her responsibility to bury Grandma in a ship on a lake. As a plague of locusts descends upon the valley to destroy her family farm, Inga and Pete embark on an adventure to right a great wrong. The quest will challenge them every step of the way. They will fail and keep fighting and fail again. A boy will become a warrior. A girl will become a magician. Children will be turned into adults. Sacrifices will be required. Before Inga can become the master of her destiny, she must first become the victim of history. Inga will learn what the Gods have always known. The greatest magic is not spells or rituals or chanted words. The greatest magic is not even love.
Set against the stark high desert of central Utah, featuring an eclectic cast of off-beat characters and a landscape shot through with gods and demons, Locust Eaters is a coming-of-age adventure about tradition, faith, and family, in which the modern world crumbles under the weight of the myths that created it, and Inga must rescue the child she used to be in order to heal the adult she has become.
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When Inga and Pete lose their parents to a tragic accident, they go to live on their grandparents’ hog farm in Sanpete County, Utah. There, Inga’s grandmother teaches her an ancient tradition of folk magic which has been in her family for over a thousand years, passed from mother to daughter, generation after generation. It is a magic made of history and family and Pagan Gods, and a prophetic vision of a Viking funeral, a fire upon the waters of Yuba Lake. But the summer of 1986, the summer Inga turns fourteen, her grandmother wanders into a storm that will forever change the lives of everyone in her family.
In the aftermath, Inga struggles to reconcile with what Grandma called “the deep magic.” She is haunted by Grandma’s vision of a Viking funeral, convinced it is her responsibility to bury Grandma in a ship on a lake. As a plague of locusts descends upon the valley to destroy her family farm, Inga and Pete embark on an adventure to right a great wrong. The quest will challenge them every step of the way. They will fail and keep fighting and fail again. A boy will become a warrior. A girl will become a magician. Children will be turned into adults. Sacrifices will be required. Before Inga can become the master of her destiny, she must first become the victim of history. Inga will learn what the Gods have always known. The greatest magic is not spells or rituals or chanted words. The greatest magic is not even love.
Set against the stark high desert of central Utah, featuring an eclectic cast of off-beat characters and a landscape shot through with gods and demons, Locust Eaters is a coming-of-age adventure about tradition, faith, and family, in which the modern world crumbles under the weight of the myths that created it, and Inga must rescue the child she used to be in order to heal the adult she has become.
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Locust Eaters, a new novella by Adrian Stumpp. Coming Soon!
Adrian’s next book, “Locust Eaters” is a stand-alone novella all about a Central Utah family with roots in Scandinavia and Mormonism and follows young Inga on an epic quest to honor the dying wishes of her grandmother. Coming soon in Spring 2023.
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8 Years Ago on This Day…
8 Years Ago on This Day, Adrian received his Master’s in Create Writing from Oregon State University MFA
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Review of The Crow’s Head
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Adrian Stumpp
$24.99 hardcover, $14.99 paperback, $2.99 e-book
ISBN: 979-8443905396
BOOK REVIEW
A counterfeiter finds himself embroiled in a centuries-old mystery.
Stumpp’s debut novel opens by introducing readers to young counterfeiter Damian Lancaster, an orphan working on the fringes of the San Francisco underworld. When he takes a job providing counterfeit money to a group of South Korean criminals, his greed gets the better of him. He fails to do his due diligence in researching the culprits; they turn on him; kidnap him; and they’re poised to kill him. Then he’s rescued by the least likely person imaginable: A young woman named Nathalie Jevali, who’s been starring in his dreams for his whole life, just as he’s been popping up in hers. They immediately start talking about their dreams, yet when they part ways, life seems to go back to normal for both of them. But very unusual forces are working in the background, including the machinations of a Korean gang lord and an enigmatic alchemist named Albert. The alchemist seems to believe Damian is a living key to a quest extending back centuries and revolving around the famed Lapis philosophorum, the Philosopher’s Stone. But the violence of Damian’s shady milieu seems ready to crush him before he can make sense of any of these elements. The author very intentionally pitches his series opener as a combination of the pseudo-historical skulduggery of The Da Vinci Code and the crime-world grit of an Elmore Leonard novel. Stumpp’s prose is sometimes overwritten, but Damian himself is a compelling, Hollywood-ready hero who carries the bulk of the book’s action with ease. He’s an intelligent young brooder, a skilled and unrepentant master criminal, and a philosopher on the art of counterfeiting (“People would believe in a lie if it showed them what they expected to see and it was Damian’s job to make lies ring true”). Readers will find it consistently intriguing to watch him navigate both the dangers of his own profession and the weird alternate reality described by the alchemist.
An imaginative crime tale with heavy supernatural overtones.
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