Bonnie Garbrecht

The Cut is Wemlinger’s most well written novel to date. The novel tells a compelling, true story of the ecological changes that occur when a “cut” is made through the land separating northern Michigan’s Portage Lake and Lake Michigan 150 years ago. Wemlinger has done a thorough job of researching this event and using it to embroider the fictional lives of the novel’s main characters — both farmers and lumbermen affected by the cut. After reading this book you will no doubt wish to visit the magnificent channel, dunes, and beaches where “the cut” occurred near Onekama, Michigan. Bonnie Garbrecht