A word of caution- Idaho is not a psycho murder mystery thriller. Keep that in mind before you start reading this book.
Idaho begins with Anna, the wife of Wade, who tries to make sense of a tragedy that befell Wade's life which changed everything as a result of which Wade's ex-wife ends up in jail, his elder daughter disappears and younger daughter murdered.
The book is a tragic prose told from different shifting perspectives and many voices. The narration keeps on switching between present past and future, not in chronological order. The book spans across 1973 to 2025; the tragedy, which is central to the plot happened in 1997. The story progresses at a slow pace with information trickling even more slowly, a bit here another there. At times one is tempted to stop reading the book altogether but the creative writing and rich language keeps one compelled to read further. There are a lot of things which the reader will find hard to comprehend but by the time one will have reached the end one will be satiated.
This is a very brilliant debut novel and in a scale of 20 we give it a 19.25.
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