Grady and Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales.

The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had belonged to his family for generations. While his ancestors planted deep roots in the unforgiving Montana soil, Anthony wanted nothing more than to leave Billings for the excitement, sophistication, and culture of city life. After college he fled to New York, hoping to turn his lifelong love of the theater into a career. But New York wasn't the...

Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with "The Home Place," a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of "The House Girl" and "A Land More Kind Than Home," in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family s life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister s death.The only Terrebonne who made it out, Alma thought she was done with Montana, with its bleak winters and stifling ways. But an unexpected call from the local police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought she d left far behind: Her lying, party-loving sister, Vicky, is dead. Alma is told that a very...