Chapters (12)

Karen Shepard and the women of the 2013 Tin House Summer Novel Workshop. Sandra Jensen, Nancy Foley, Tim Sutton, and Margaret Eagleton. Lynn Grant, Cheryl Niemuller, Devon Ronner and Barbara Turner. Melinda Haas. John Vinduska and Sherri Jackson, who gave me the mare and Percheron. All my friends who put up with me. Thank you.

Wendy Williams for The Horse, and Joe Back for Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails. Robert Service for “The Song of the Wage Slave.”

Experts and technical consultants: Letha Robertson, Justin Elkins, Kevin and Kylen Ulrey, the Wayne and Yelena Hage family, Dave Gudelauski, Oz Wichman, Betsy, Ella and Arthur Vielhaber, Sharon Weisenbaum, Ella Cummings. The Indigenous American storytellers of North America over eons on whose land I live and learn. The UMass Amherst Program for Poets and Writers, Sirenland Writers Conference, Tin House and BOA Editions.

My thanks to my mother and father, who never told me to stop. To my family. To Jerry Elkins, who gave me a desert home and his vast knowledge of the wild in which to write this.

To Pearl.

To all the beasts.

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Current & Upcoming Books

Juan Pablo Villalobos, Down the Rabbit Hole, trans. Rosalind Harvey

Clemens Meyer, All the Lights, trans. Katy Derbyshire

Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

Iosi Havilio, Open Door, trans. Beth Fowler

Oleg Zaionchkovsky, Happiness is Possible, trans. Andrew Bromfield

Carlos Gamerro, The Islands, trans. Ian Barnett

Christoph Simon, Zbinden’s Progress, trans. Donal McLaughlin

Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods