Wildlife

Ford’s fourth novel is set in the same Western landscape that so distinguished his acclaimed collection Rock Springs, and with it he extends his reputation as one of the most compelling and eloquent storytellers of his generation . . . providing us with both the pleasures of narrative and the sad wisdom of art. — The New York Times.

Joe Brinson was sixteen when his family moved to Great Falls, Montana, in 1960. Still young, his father and mother were following opportunity, much as they always had, with their deepest loyalties intact. Here, on the edge of the Great Plains, they were together, the three of the, hopeful and expectant.  The story Joe tells, years later, is of what happened when suddenly their lies changed in ways neither he nor his parents ever could have anticipated.