Flashbacks and letters of Otto's time in World War I play out on the current landscape of the aging trio's lives. Otto, on the other hand, stays at home, baking and making paper-mache animal figures while he waits for Etta's return. When he does catch up with Etta, she advises him to follow his own path and create his own journey which he does. Editions for Etta and Otto and Russell and James: 0241003326 (Hardcover published in 2015), 1476755671 (Hardcover published in 2015), (Kindle Edition pub. Russell chooses to go after Etta, whom he has loved since he met her sixty years ago. Otto enrages their close friend, Russell, when he declares that Etta should be allowed her independence. The lines between her identity and Otto's blend as the story extends. As Etta walks further toward the ocean, accompanied by a coyote named James, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever shes gone. Etta struggles with early stages of dementia. Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Along the way, Etta is joined by a talking coyote named James as well as other people who gain notice of her journey. Etta leaves a note for her husband, Otto, takes his gun, a few personal items, and some food. In Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a novel by Emma Hooper, an 83-year-old woman named Etta leaves her farm home in Saskatchewan early one morning on a trek to see the ocean she has never viewed. NOTE: This study guide refers to Etta and Otto and Russell and James, by Emma Hooper, the Kindle Edition, Copyright 2015.
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