A Canadian who knows the American west? Yep! DeWitt crushes this book with a uniquely interesting tale of two brothers working as hired muscle. The dialogue truly makes this novel.

Wonderful collection of stories. Saenz captures the beauty and loneliness of the desert as a means for displaying the beauty and loneliness of human life.

Interestingly, I think Meyer's debut here is much better than the Son. The characters are so real it's hard to pull yourself back out of the book. It stretches the bounds of literary fiction.

The Son isn't just western fiction. It's contemporary fiction at its best. It spans generations, shifts perspectives. Meyer wrote every passage without judgment. If we are to judge, that's fine, but he will not do it for us. Beautiful work.