On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Gary and Irene's marriage is unraveling. Following the outline of Gary's old dream and trying to rebuild their life together, they are finally constructing the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place. But the onse[...]

The prizewinning author of Dirt, Caribou Island, and Legend of a Suicide returns with a searing, morally complex novel about families, violence, regret, and shattered faith.In the fall of 1978, on a 640-acre family ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy joins his grand[...]

Twenty-two-year-old Galen is a New Age believer on a warpath towards transcendence. He lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded house, surviving on old family money that his Aunt Helen and cousin Jennifer are determined to get their hands on.[...]

The year is 1985 and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento, California. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped[...]

On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling. Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs out [...]

On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A student, a Deans' Award winner. How could this happen?CNN could not get the story. The "Chicago Tribune," "Washington Post," and all others came up empty [...]

If you've ever owned a sailboat or had a friend who did, you know how it begins: with a dream. You dream about the ship, and gradually the dream consumes you. Practical considerations lose all meaning ...until, inevitably, the dream morphs into a nightmare. David Vann is familiar with that nightm[...]

Da Roy Fenn er tretten år gammel, tar faren hans livet sitt. I disse delvis selvbiografiske fortellingene følger vi Roy fra han blir født i Alaska, til han vender tilbake tretti år senere for å konfrontere farens død. Roy er fremdeles en ung gutt da faren hans, en mislykket tannlege og ulykksa[...]

Caribou Island, David Vanns debutroman, følger et ægteskabs ødelæggende opløsning midt i Alaskas ubarmhjertige natur. På en lille ø i en gletsjersø i Alaska har det midaldrende ægtepar Gary og Irene besluttet sig for endelig at udleve Garys livsdrøm: at bygge en hytte p[...]