"A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--

Robber's roost: Sheriff Val Collins from Pima County in the Arizona Territory is a witness to a botched train robbery by the notorious Dolf LeRoy gang and the kidnapping of Helen Meredith for ransom. Collins must foil the ransom plot and rescue Helen unharmed. Troubled waters: During the conflict between cattlemen and sheepmen, Wyoming sheepman J.C. Tate violates an agreed-upon line of demarcation with his sheep. Rancher Rowan McCoy organizes a night...

"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...