Daryl Farmer writes about parts of the country where dreams go to be born or to die, places where the most unforgiving landscape is the human heart. Set in the western United States and in the far reaches of Alaska, the stories of WHERE WE LAND give us characters trying hard to negotiate external and internal boundaries. They find themselves far beyond the edge of where and what they've been, and they're working hard either to find their way home or to break new ground inside themselves.--from the publisher

"In the tradition of Jack London, Richard Ford and Annie Proulx, Daryl...