The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer--New York Post
Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 --Southern Living
46 Great Books to Read This Summer--Nylon
Dazzling Debuts"--WYPR, "The Weekly Reader"
8 New Books You Should Read This June--vulture.com
Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise
Lounge--Refinery29
What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May--Outside
"Furious and electric . . . a fever dream."--Publishers Weekly,
*Starred Review!*
Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men... Ever since their
father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his
inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their
family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one
morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the
field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more
cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a
TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the
girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the
desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean
the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go
after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost.
Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a
nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches
him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet
brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds
his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument
Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is
and what he's capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably
apart from the one person he's ever really known and loved. Steeped in a
mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first
gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a
powerful new voice.
