Brian Duren

Brian Duren has a doctorate in French Literature from the University of Paris and a Ph.D. in French and a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota. He has taught at the University of Texas, Tulsa, Iowa, and Minnesota, and at Gustavus Adolphus and Augsburg College. His book Whiteout tells the story of American expatriate Paul Bauer, a freelance journalist living in Paris with his French lover, and thinks he has it made. And then his mother dies. When he returns for the funeral to a little town in northern Minnesota, he encounters unsettling contradictions to his understanding of his family history and begins a quest into his past that leads him back among the dead. He hears the voices of his parents talking of dreams, desires, and loss, and inexorably their story leads him to ask the question—the very question his family has always wanted to prevent him from asking: What really did happen in that whiteout thirty-five years ago? The answer changes everything.

Independent Publishers Association Award – Gold Medal for Midwestern Fiction Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award for Midwestern Literature National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Fiction – Finalist

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Brian Duren

"Whiteout is an intense, moving story about how lost a family can get and how it can right itself again. The atmosphere of the north woods permeates the novel and gives it a deep claustrophobic, gothic sense. Duren takes the metaphor of the whiteout—the complete blankness of the world, the possibility of erasing everything—and shows that it is not the answer. Instead, in this lovely, lyrically written novel, he gives us the power of the truth." —Mary Logue, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, author of Point No Point

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