A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award • Winner of the Oregon Book Award

"An instant classic. . . a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." —William Kittredge, author of Owning It All

A widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in

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One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic.
Alexandra...

"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear... The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will be one of...