301 pages
English language
Published 1999 by Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
"In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl - her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house - is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known."--BOOK JACKET.
"From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together - their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant."--BOOK JACKET.
I don't know where the "well-written book!" is, I couldn't find it in any of the pages. It only took me a pair of hours to finish it.
