International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

Jim Harrison is one of America'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 favourite 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 Nabraska 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 humour, humanity, and inimitable evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison's legion of fans.
Jim Harrison is the author of three volumes of novellas, six novels, and seven collections of poetry. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been published in twenty-two languages. He lives in northern Michigan and in Arizona.

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The Road Home by
Jim Harrison

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