While enduring a long, cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters, as well as an orphan boy named Nevers, Ben comes to understand himself and his familyтАЩs past. Peppered throughout with heart and humorтАФand including a glossary and afterword with facts about loggingтАФBlackwater Ben paints a vivid picture of the north woods of Minnesota at the end of the nineteenth century.
William Durbin is a former high school and college English teacher and the award-winning author of ten novels, including The Broken Blade, Until the Last Spike, Song of Sampo Lake (Minnesota, 2011), and The Darkest Evening (Minnesota, 2011). He lives on Lake Vermilion at the edge of MinnesotaтАЩs Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.