" Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --NPR
" Lock] is one of the most interesting writers out there." --"Reader's Digest"
"Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth." --"Shelf Awareness"
In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific,...