Totally fresh and original about the urban lives of Native Americans - this book really made me think, and think hard. Well worth the time, this can be an uncomfortable read.
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **
One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native American voice
'A thunderclap' Marlon James 'Astonishing' Margaret Atwood, via Twitter 'Pure soaring beauty' Colm Toibin
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance.
McCarthy is a master (the master?) no doubt. This gritty read once again immersed the reader in a facet of the west I'd never considered overly much. Harsh, gritty and mesmerizing.
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular…
This book is a great example of an unreliable narrator. It's not that Rachel is not likeable - it's that she has a serious problem with alcohol. Taking the reader along through an alcoholic haze...what actually did happen?
The #1 New York Times bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year and now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple having breakfast on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
Perfect for fans of Yellowstone. This contemporary western paints an unflinching portrait of the gritty realities of today's rugged west.
Emory Cross returns to the Lost Daughter Ranch for a brief vacation, only to be ensnared in a one hundred thirty-seven-year old vendetta against her family. She faces off against a deranged descendent of the Cooper Family--a man notorious for adorning fence posts with decaying cattle skulls to ward off intruders.
Driven by the fierce determination to safeguard her family's legacy and way of life into the 21st century, Emory faces a formidable obstacle: the resurgence of the Coopers, historic adversaries hell-bent on vengeance in Stampede.
As long-simmering tensions escalate, Emory vows to unravel the mystery behind the ancient ambush before it catalyzes a harrowing act of urban terrorism--Colorado style.
