After a brief stint of helping out around the house and barn, he leaves following a drunken brawl with Gar. Once he is old enough, his parents give him his own litter to raise.Įventually, Claude returns to the farm. Edgar grows up on the farm learning to breed dogs with his parents and Almondine, his own dog, who is always by his side and in a way speaks for him. After his parents come to understand that he is mute, his parents learn sign language along with him, some made up and some real signs. After some troubled attempts to have a child, Gar and his wife (Trudy) have Edgar. Claude leaves the farm and Gar stays on and carries on the family business. He and his wife have two sons, Edgar's father (Gar) and Claude. After buying a farm, his grandfather, John Sawtelle, rents out the farmland and starts dog breeding. The title character is a mute boy who, after his father is killed, runs away from but then returns to his usurped home, hoping to prove his suspicions that his uncle murdered his father.Įdgar comes from a line of dog breeders. The novel is a retelling of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in rural Wisconsin. The same year, it was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Winfrey also included the book as one of the few tangible gifts in her recession-themed thrifty Oprah's Favorite Things that year. It became a New York Times Best Seller on June 29, 2008, and Oprah Winfrey chose it for her book club on September 19, 2008. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is the first novel by American author David Wroblewski.
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