The prize-winning author of Dirt, Caribou Island, and Legend of a Suicide returns with a searing, morally complex novel about families, violence, regret, and shattered faith“Greatness has arrived.”—Outside magazine “A truly great writer.” —Irish Sunday Independent “A new great American novelist.” —France Info “Like Melville, Faulkner, and Hemingway, Vann is already one of the great ones of American literature.” —ABC (Spain) “Compared to David Vann, Hemingway is a sugary writer.” —De Pers (Netherlands) “Comparison to Cormac McCarthy is fully justified.” —Times Literary Supplement