Books like Train Dreams
Robert Grainier, a day labourer who helps build the railroads and bridges of the Idaho panhandle in the early twentieth century, loses his family to a wildfire and lives on alone at the edge of a changing West.
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Dirt Music
Georgie Jutland, a former nurse living unhappily with a widowed fisherman in a West Australian coastal town, falls for Luther Fox, a poacher with a dead family and a guitar he no longer plays.
Medicine Walk
Franklin Starlight, sixteen, is summoned by the father who never raised him, dying of drink, who asks to be taken into the British Columbia backcountry and buried in the warrior way.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
In a dreary Southern mill town the formidable Miss Amelia Evans opens a café after a hunchbacked stranger turns up claiming to be her cousin, until her ex-husband comes home from prison.
The Way West
In 1845 a wagon train sets out from Independence, Missouri, along the Oregon Trail, guided by the mountain man Dick Summers.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
Winter in the Blood
An unnamed young Blackfeet man drifts between his mother's ranch on the reservation and the bars of Montana towns, looking for the woman who took his rifle and for a reason to care.
Angle of Repose
A retired historian reconstructs his grandparents' lives in the American West, discovering that the compromise and sacrifice of one generation echoes through the next.
The Shack
Years after his youngest daughter was abducted on a family camping trip, with evidence that she was murdered in an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness, Mack Phillips finds a note in his mailbox, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Monte Walsh
A lifelong cowboy watches the open range vanish as railroads, barbed wire, and corporations transform the American West.
Butcher's Crossing
A Harvard dropout joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness that becomes a descent into primal obsession.
Housekeeping
Ruth and her younger sister Lucille, orphaned beside a glacial lake in Fingerbone, Idaho, are raised by their aunt Sylvie, a drifter who keeps house in her own strange way, and as Lucille chooses an ordinary life, Ruth drifts towards Sylvie's.
Tokyo Ueno Station
The ghost of Kazu, a labourer from Fukushima who spent his last years among the homeless of Tokyo's Ueno Park, looks back on a life of work that began in the same year as the emperor's.