| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
262 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The burning season -- The child -- Deep water -- Low states -- Reunion -- The road used to end here -- Clay eaters -- Sackcloth and ashes -- Open ground -- Drawn out -- Houses on the hill -- A dog that fetches rocks -- Land of no use -- Cold water, tall mountains -- Night -- In kind -- The last winter. |
| Summary |
Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding on the road. Eighteen years later, Bandy is released from prison. His parents are gone, but on the derelict family ranch, Bandy faces a different reunion. Tracy, his now teenaged son, has come to claim the father he's never known. Iona, Bandy's ex-wife, has returned on the heels of her son. All three are damaged, hardened, haunted. But warily, desperately, they move in a slow dance around each other, trying to piece back together a family that never was; trying to discover if they belong together at all. |
| Subject |
Families -- Fiction.
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Idaho -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781608190140 hardcover |
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1608190145 |
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9781608194698 paperback |
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