Emily Ruskovich's voice is exactly what you would hope it to be: soft, lyrical and sweet. Just like her writing. Her insight—way beyond her years—on the many secrets buried deep in Idaho's backcountry is particularly keen. Just like her writing.

"Idaho is..." she said, taking a long pause. "Well, Idaho is a strange place, isn't it? No place quite like it. Growing up in Idaho was so beautiful, so isolated and quite scary."

Ruskovich's childhood included living on Hoodoo Mountain in northern Idaho. Sometimes her family went without electricity or running water above the town of Blanchard. It was there her family embraced the mountain's serenity, she said, but they were also robbed several times/George Prentice, Boise Weekly. More here.

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