Undercurrents: A Novel

• Debut author

• Setting based on the farm that Maki's Finnish great-grandparents worked generations ago

• Maki Raised on this fifth-genreation Montana ranch

• Maki has lived a life of research in the "

ghostly nature of the farm where [she] was raised and

the adjacent wild lands" • and her deep connection to her source material and themes is demonstrated in her vivid scenes and spellbinding language

• Written with the traditional plot of a hard-boiled whodunnit infused with stream-of-conscious and fragmentation, the latter of which is reminiscent of the experimentation in Justin Torres's

Blackouts