New York, NY: Knopf (2004)

First Edition. Signed.

Near fine in dust jacket.

One of the most beloved novels in recent years, Plainsong was a best-seller from coast to coast--and now Kent Hand returns to the high plains around Holt, Colorado, with a story of even greater authority.

When the McPheron brothers see the single mother they'd taken in move away to college, an emptiness opens before them, and for many other townspeople as well it promises to be a long, hard winter. A young boy living alone with his grandfather helps out a neighbor whose husband, off in Alaska, suddenly isn't coming home, leaving her to raise their two daughters. The children of a disabled couple suffer indignities at school that their parents know all too well, with only a social worker to look after them.

But in a small town a great many people encounter one another frequently, often surprisingly, and destinies soon become entwined as they confront events that sorely test their resilience, with no shelter available except their own character. Spring eventually reaches across the land, and how the people of Eventide get there makes for an engrossing, profoundly moving novel rich in the wisdom and humanity for which Kent Haruf is justly acclaimed.