THE TROUBLE UP NORTH HITS BOOKSTORES MARCH OF 2025!!!
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ADVANCE PRAISE !
"Simply put, Travis Mulhauser is one of my favorite writers working today. The second you encounter his offbeat, slipstream, and lyrical prose you know that you're reading a disciple of Charles Portis, the kind of writer who always honors his characters with firebrand intelligence, knife-sharp wit, and reckless heart. I drank this novel like a series of shots - one evening of delirious page-turning. Write faster, Travis Mulhauser, the world needs more of your books." -- NICKOLAS BUTLER, author of SHOTGUN LOVESONGS and A FORTY YEAR KISS
"Never has a fictional family so subtly mirrored the struggles of our society—addiction, environmental destruction, economic disparities, sickness, ATV’s—with such humor and intelligence. Mulhauser brings to mind other lauded Michigan writers—Elmore Leonard in the pitch-perfect dialogue, Jim Harrison in the attentiveness to landscape and wildlife—but The Trouble Up North, for a novel so deeply rooted in a place, is as much a state of mind. Heartbreaking, wildly funny and always surprising, The Trouble Up North is a straight-up treasure.” -- Michael Parker, author of PRAIRIE FEVER and I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD
"The Trouble Up North is a deeply moving tale of family ties -- not just the ones we form in the present, but those that stretch back generations. It's also action-packed and laugh-out-loud funny, with characters that leap off the page. I loved it." - Alison Gaylin, USA Today Bestselling author of WE ARE WATCHING
“In The Trouble Up North, Travis Mulhauser has written a gripping novel that explores the enduring bonds that both give us strength and tear us down. Set on the banks of Lake Huron, the Sawbrook family has held sway over their neck of the woods for decades, but a series of tragic events threatens the family and the land. The Trouble Up North is a heart-wrenching tale of family secrets and turmoil written with a profound sense of place.” -- Allen Eskens, Bestselling author of THE LIFE WE BURY
THE TROUBLE UP NORTH, with its beautiful evocation of place, and characters that will haunt you in all the best ways, grabs hold of you to ask: What does it take for us to see what really matters? How far would we go to save ourselves and our families? How sure are we, finally, that we’re safe? Propulsive and layered, Mulhauser’s novel is an examination of the ways we sacrifice—sometimes everything—for the ones we love. --Tita Ramirez, author of TELL IT TO ME SINGING
"Funny and fierce, wise and so alive to its people, THE TROUBLE UP NORTH is a novel you want to live in. The Sawbrooks are at once totally unique and completely familiar, a family you trust in and hope and hurt for from the very first pages. I wanted to start over as soon as I finished it." --Drew Perry, author of KIDS THESE DAYS and THIS IS JUST EXACTLY LIKE YOU
“If Bruce Springsteen grew up in Michigan with a well-thumbed library of Elmore Leonard, The Trouble Up North might be the book he’d write. Exhilarating, cinematic, and deeply felt, Mulhauser’s second novel surpasses the promise of his magnificent debut.” —James Tate Hill, author of BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
