{"product_id":"west-a-novel","title":"West: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Sunday Times (UK)  The Guardian (UK)  The Washington Independent Review of Books  Sydney Morning Herald  The Los Angeles Public Library  The Irish Independent  Real Simple   Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize  Carys Davies is a deft  audacious visionary. Ta Obreht  When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud  he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years  he leaves behind his only daughter  Bess  to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west.  With only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mothers gold ring to call her own  Bess  unprotected and approaching womanhood  fills lonely days tracing her fathers route on maps at the subscription library and waiting for his letters to arrive. Bellman  meanwhile  wanders farther and farther from home  across harsh and alien landscapes  in reckless pursuit of the unknown.  From Frank OConnor Award winner Carys Davies  West is a spellbinding and timeless epic-in-miniature  an eerie parable of the American frontier and an electric monument to possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959872254005,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501179349","price":28.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501179341.jpg?v=1770377351","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/west-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}