Carrie La Seur

The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had belonged to his family for generations. While his ancestors planted deep roots in the unforgiving Montana soil, Anthony wanted nothing more than to leave Billings for the excitement, sophistication, and culture of city life. After college he fled to New York, hoping to turn his lifelong love of the theater into a career. But New York wasn’t the dream Anthony thought it would be. Now, with the unexpected death of his father, Anthony suddenly finds himself back in the place he swore he’d left behind. While the years have transformed the artistic dreamer, they’ve also changed Billings. His uncle Neal, always the black sheep of the Fry family, has become alarmingly close with Anthony’s mother, and a predatory mining company covets the Fry land. Anthony has always wanted out of Montana, away from his father’s suffocating expectations. Yet now that he may be freed from the burden of family legacy, he’s forced to ask himself what he truly finds important . . . answers that will ultimately decide his fate. In this unforgettable novel, Carrie La Seur once again captures the breathtaking beauty of the West and its people as she explores the power of family and the meaning of legacy—the burdens we inherit and those we place upon ourselves.

A Novel

The Weight of an Infinite Sky

Alma Terrebonne thought she was done with Montana, with its cruel poverty, bleak winters, and stifling ways. Hard work and steely resolve got her to Yale, and now she's an attorney in a high-profile Seattle law firm. But an unexpected call from the Montana police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought she'd escaped. Her lying, party-loving younger sister, Vicky, is dead. The Billings police say that a very drunk Vicky wandered away from a party and died of exposure after a night in the brutal cold. But once Alma is back in town, she discovers that Vicky's death may not have been an accident. Needing to make peace with the sister she left behind, Alma sets out to find the truth.

The Home Place

Hazel Gaynor

Joshilyn Jackson

Emmi Itäranta

Nadia Hashimi

Holly Brown

Katherine Harbour

Mary McNear

CJ Hauser

Rebecca Rotert

M. P. Cooley

Sarah Creech

New York Times bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson presents The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection. This free e-book sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and upcoming titles by debut fiction authors you'll want to get familiar with early on. The New Voices in Fiction Sampler: Summer Selection includes: An Introduction from Joshilyn Jackson and an excerpt from her latest novel, Someone Else's Love Story, on sale now. And excerpts from: The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta The From-Aways by CJ Hauser Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert Don't Try to Find Me by Holly Brown Ice Shear by M.P. Cooley The Home Place by Carrie La Seur Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson

Summer Selection

The New Voices in Fiction Sampler

Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister’s death. The only Terrebonne who made it out, Alma thought she was done with Montana, with its bleak winters and stifling ways. But an unexpected call from the local police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought she’d left far behind: Her lying, party-loving sister, Vicky, is dead. Alma is told that a very drunk Vicky had wandered away from a party and died of exposure after a night in the brutal cold. But when Alma returns home to bury Vicky and see to her orphaned niece, she discovers that the death may not have been an accident. The Home Place is a story of secrets that will not lie still, human bonds that will not break, and crippling memories that will not be silenced. It is a story of rural towns and runaways, of tensions corporate and racial, of childhood trauma and adolescent betrayal, and of the guilt that even forgiveness cannot ease. Most of all, this is a story of the place we carry in us always: home.

Ein Anruf und Almas Leben in Seattle gerät aus den Fugen: Ihre Schwester Vicky ist tot, erfroren in einer klirrend kalten Januarnacht. Alma muss zurück zu ihrer Familie nach Montana, an den Ort, dem sie vor langer Zeit den Rücken gekehrt hat, das ist sie Vicky schuldig. Früher waren die Berge, die urwüchsigen Wälder und weitläufigen Täler ihre Heimat, jetzt lösen der eiserne Griff des Winters und die abweisende Art der Menschen Beklommenheit in ihr aus. Und während die Erinnerungen an ihr früheres Leben, an ihre Schwester und an schmerzhafte Erlebnisse wieder ans Licht drängen, erscheinen auch die Umstände von Vickys Tod zunehmend rätselhaft und werfen immer mehr Fragen auf ... »Denn wir waren Schwestern« erzählt von einer jungen Frau, die sich auf die Suche macht, nach ihren Wurzeln, nach sich selbst – und nach dem Mörder ihrer Schwester: der Kälte trotzend, getragen vom Geist indianischer Mythen und der Kraft der mächtigen Landschaft Montanas. Und nicht zuletzt von der Liebe zu einem Ort, den man Heimat nennt. Die Kälte einer Januarnacht in Montana kennt deine Schwächen, sie spricht mit deinen Ängsten. Sie lauert dir auf und ringt dich nieder. Sie klingt wie das Geheul der Wölfe, wie der Schall von Trommeln, die an deinen innersten, heiligen Orten widerhallen ...

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Denn wir waren Schwestern

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Spinning in Her Grave

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