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West of Here by Jonathan Evison

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Also by Jonathan Evison:

The Heart of Winter, January 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Again and Again, December 2024
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Small World, January 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Legends of the North Cascades, June 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Revised Fundamentals Of Caregiving, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
West of Here, February 2011
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West of Here
Jonathan Evison

Algonquin Books
February 2011
On Sale: February 15, 2011
496 pages
ISBN: 1565129520
EAN: 9781565129528
Hardcover
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Fiction

Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State’s rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience—it is storytelling on the grandest scale. With one segment of the narrative focused on the town’s founders circa 1890 and another showing the lives of their descendants in 2006, the novel develops as a kind of conversation between two epochs, one rushing blindly toward the future and the other struggling to undo the damage of the past.

An exposition on the effects of time, on how something said or done in one generation keeps echoing through all the years that follow, and how mistakes keep happening and people keep on trying to be strong and brave and, most important, just and right, West of Here harks back to the work of such masters of Americana as Bret Harte, Edna Ferber, and Larry McMurtry, writers whose fiction turned history into myth and myth into a nation’s shared experience. It is a bold novel by a writer destined to become a major force in American literature.

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