Inland: A NovelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly), from the celebrated author of The Tiger’s Wife and The Morningside “Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country, The New York Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, BookPage In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Téa Obreht’s talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely—and unforgettably—her own. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 19 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 32 |
Section 5 | 35 |
Section 6 | 39 |
Section 7 | 47 |
Section 8 | 62 |
Section 20 | 209 |
Section 21 | 211 |
Section 22 | 220 |
Section 23 | 222 |
Section 24 | 243 |
Section 25 | 249 |
Section 26 | 261 |
Section 27 | 273 |
Section 9 | 81 |
Section 10 | 111 |
Section 11 | 125 |
Section 12 | 130 |
Section 13 | 138 |
Section 14 | 144 |
Section 15 | 173 |
Section 16 | 178 |
Section 17 | 190 |
Section 18 | 195 |
Section 19 | 204 |
Section 28 | 277 |
Section 29 | 280 |
Section 30 | 285 |
Section 31 | 293 |
Section 32 | 305 |
Section 33 | 315 |
Section 34 | 333 |
Section 35 | 336 |
Section 36 | 363 |
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