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A compelling and surprising novel from the author of the award-winning WHERE RIVERS CHANGE DIRECTION.

About the Author

Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and The Fruit of Stone, a novel. He lives in Cody, Wyoming.

Reviews

Elegantly and crisply written
*Daily Telegraph*

In this evocative novel, Spragg [uses] the grandeur of the American landscape to provide a haunting backdrop for the drama of his characters' lives
*Daily Mail*

A beautifully crafted piece of fiction
*Boston Globe*

A meticulously assembled and highly polished piece of work
*Spectator*

'Spragg's idiomatic prose hums with the raw poetry of the natural world' Observer

'Mark Spragg owns one of the truest and most original new voices in American letters' Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong

'Imagine the spirit of Hemingway reborn in the soul of a ranch-owner's son in Wyoming' Esquire

Single mom Jean Gilkyson, whose husband died when she was pregnant, feels compelled to flee an abusive boyfriend. But the only place she can go is the Wyoming home of a father-in-law who despises her. From the author of the celebrated memoir Where Rivers Change Direction; with an 11-city author tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Elegantly and crisply written * Daily Telegraph *
In this evocative novel, Spragg [uses] the grandeur of the American landscape to provide a haunting backdrop for the drama of his characters' lives * Daily Mail *
A beautifully crafted piece of fiction * Boston Globe *
A meticulously assembled and highly polished piece of work * Spectator *

'Spragg's idiomatic prose hums with the raw poetry of the natural world' Observer