National Book Award Finalist
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set
on the High Plains east of Denver.
In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted
with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the
bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl--her father long since
disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house--is pregnant,
alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers,
elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've
ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of
the town and landscape that bind them together--their fates somehow
overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their
confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the
milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an
emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic
American tradition.