RaveThe St. Louis Post-DispatchThe durable order of family life disappears entirely in the second half of a book that transports Dell from the simple but familiar home he shared with his parents and sister in Great Falls, Mont., to a pair of desolate Saskatchewan prairie towns — one as dreary as the next … Ford excels on a canvas that lends itself to sparse, weighted dialogue and observation. Tempered by fear and violence, his Canadian outback is a place where nothing seemed ‘reasonable or logical, based on what anyone would believe they knew about the world’ … Winsome, complex and gritty, Dell represents the quintessential voice of one of the best American novelists of our time.
