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Alaska Review of novel
by cousin Peter Brown
Gold Rush tale draws rich characters
NOME: Author draws on grandfather's Gold Rush diaries.



Edwin Brown, left, the author's grandfather, and a partner show off gold nuggets taken from their claim on Anvil Creek near Nome. (Photo courtesy Peter Brown)

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By AMANDA COYNE
Daily News correspondent

(Published: February 9, 2006)
The Nome of today -- with its cast of colorful characters who gather in musty watering holes, strong Native culture and brutal climate -- has enough going for it to provide a great novelistic scene-setter. But imagine the town more than a hundred years ago, when the Gold Rush was in full heat and, as Peter Brown describes it in his debut novel, "The Fugitive Wife," downtown was a "river of humanity and animals shouldering up the street," where women "cut their hair and pulled on men's trousers" and where dreamers of all sorts converged to find their future.
Throw in an upper-class easterner who heads to Nome to make his fortune and falls for a Midwest country girl escaping a ruined farm with a furtive, drunken husband on her tail and you've got the potential for a gold mine of a plot.
For the most part, Brown exploits this potential in "The Fugitive Wife," an ambitious, sweeping view of an unusual place at an unusual moment in history. Brown's prose is extraordinarily confident, his plot finely woven and his characters keenly wrought. Combining facts with a modern-day poetic flare make his settings melt onto the page more than spring to life. This is not a cannonball blast back in time; it's a seduction into a world -- not of great battles and men wearing wigs, arguing over the future of nations, but of common individuals on a voyage of loss and beginnings.
Still, at more than 400 pages, it's a big book, and Brown, a 58-year-old Minnesotan, certainly did his homework filling it. His grandfather went to Nome in 1900 and worked as a mining engineer, and Brown says in an author's note that he drew heavily from his grandfather's diaries.
Although smudged a bit, some of his characters, like Alexander McKenzie, were taken from life. A list of publications he consulted runs at the end of the book, and one would guess he also pored over technical manuals. Brown's obsession with machinery might excite those few fiction readers who are similarly obsessed, but many of us can be excused for skipping some of the hydraulic-dredge talk to get to the sex scenes, which, unlike so many sex scenes, don't make you want to take a vow of chastity.
Brown may love his machinery, but he loves his characters more. Most of his adoration is saved for his main protagonist, Esther Crummey, the fugitive wife, and it's easy to understand why. She's headstrong, practical, adventuresome and sensual in that pragmatic way that we yearn for farm girls to be. She is, in fact, exactly the type of woman you might imagine would make her way from Minnesota to Nome during the manly Gold Rush just to escape her past, a strong woman imbued with dignity, ambition and poetry. A woman who can sail under a night's sky "to the place where the horses began" but can also work the farm as well as any man and start her own business in Nome.
In some ways, Brown is equally kind to Leonard, the husband she is fleeing. Although a totally flawed alcoholic, a thief who ruined Esther's farm, we see him occasionally at his best, particularly in his real and conflicted love for Esther.
Nate Deaton, the easterner, is perhaps the least likable and interesting character in the book. But still, because we love Esther and we know her life would be better with him, we root for Nate in the end.
These are Brown's primary characters, but there isn't a secondary character he doesn't spend some time with, from a shopkeeper to miners to every kind of wanderer. And here lie both the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of "The Fugitive Wife." The novel is so entranced with its characters -- what they do, how they talk and how they dress -- that Brown sometimes neglects the historical dimension of their existence.
The best historical novels show us how a particular time informs and shapes a society. "The Fugitive Wife" focuses so intensely on the inner workings of its characters that the narrator can't step back sufficiently to show us the bigger picture, the bigger historical lesson to be learned. And toward the end, it's as though the novel is drawing itself out to search for the larger meaning.
In all, this is an extremely impressive first novel, and if memorable characters are Brown's greatest sins, then I'm eager for him to spill more ink and sin again.
Writer Amanda Coyne lives in Anchorage.
www.TheFugitiveWife.com
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