Jonathan Evison
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise, septuagenarian Harriet reunites with her estranged daughter and confronts pivotal events from her life surrounding the true character of her husband, who died two years earlier.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental...