Come West and See - by Maxim Loskutoff (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An NPR Best Book of 2018<br /><br /> Devastating....Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it's left an indelible mark. --Janet Maslin, <em>New York Times</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. Written with "blade-sharp prose" (<em>Electric Literature</em>), the twelve stories in this debut collection expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America "with extraordinary eloquence and compassion" (<em>National Book Review</em>).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[A] visceral debut.... <em>Come West and See</em> almost invites comparison with books in the vein of Juan Rulfo's enigmatic midcentury masterpiece Pedro Páramo.... Whereas Rulfo's novel is full of corpses, Loskutoff's characters are very much alive.--Adam DePollo "Michigan Quarterly Review"<br><br>A new kind of American Western.--Jolie Myers "NPR"<br><br>Fans of Cormac McCarthy and Russell Banks will find plenty to like in Loskutoff's fresh voice and keen instincts for drama.-- "LA Weekly"<br><br>It is impossible not to be struck by the tenderness in Loskutoff's writing: the sublime setting; the vivid characters, so precise and unique it seems like he dreamed them up whole and fully fledged; the intricacies of love, fear, and fatigue that resonate so strongly they left me actually breathless.-- "Ploughshares"<br><br>Like postcards from a truthful place, <em>Come West and See</em> holds a mirror up to America--a brutal, ferocious image that carries a beauty unto itself.--Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries, basis for the Netflix original series Longmire<br><br>A ferocious love letter to the forgotten and the scorned.--Matt Gallagher<br><br>Maxim Loskutoff highlights life on the other side-- the disenfranchised, angry, sullen, rebellious, gun-packing side. See them attempt to create a homeland of their own.--William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky<br><br>Violence waits for its moment in the quietest of lives, and Loskutoff shows us that we had better face it and do our best to understand it. A tough, human work of fiction.--Tom Bouman, author of Dry Bones in the Valley<br>
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