“[The Road Home] will take its place among the major works of American literature.”
—Frank Caso, Booklist (starred review)
“A saga as homespun as an old quilt. . . . [The characters] are such good company you forget they exists nowhere but in Harrison’s imagination.” —Malcolm Jones, Jr., Newsweek
Jim Harrison is one of this country’s most acclaimed writers, and in The Road Home, his first full-length novel since Dalva ten years ago, he delivers a majestic and generous story that is no less than a true American epic.
The Road Home continues the story of his captivating heroine Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family. It encompasses the voices of Dalva’s grandfather John Northridge, the austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch; Naomi, the widow of his favorite son and namesake; Paul, the first Northridge son, who lived in the shadow of his brother; and Nelse, the son taken from Dalva at birth, who now has returned to find her. It is haunted by the hovering spirits of the father and the lover Dalva lost to this country’s wars. It is a family history drenched in suffering and joy, imbued with fierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and intertwined with the destiny of whites and native Americans in the American West.
Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the nineteenth century to the present day, The Road Home is a stunning and trenchant novel, written with the humor, humanity, and inimitable evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison’s legion of fans.
