{"product_id":"wilderness-a-novel-9781620400623","title":"Wilderness: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty years after the Civil Wars Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed  Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent  the rugged  majestic coast of Washington State  where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel  now an old and ailing man  and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. Its a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war.  As Abel makes his way into the foothills  the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war  the friends he lost  and the savagery he took part in and witnessed. And yet  darkness is cut by light  especially in the people who have touched his life-from Jane Dao-Ming Poole  the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants  to Hypatia  an escaped slave who nursed him back to life  and finally to the unbearable memory of the wife and child he lost as a young man. Haunted by tragedy  loss  and unspeakable brutality  Abel has somehow managed to hold on to his humanity  finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path.  In its contrasts of light and dark  wild and tame  brutal and tender  and its attempts to reconcile a horrific war with the great evil it ended  Wilderness tells not only the moving tale of an unforgettable character  but a story about who we are as human beings  a people  and a nation. Lance Wellers immensely impressive debut immediately places him among our most talented writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923581894709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1620400626","price":65.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781620400623.jpg?v=1794108505","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wilderness-a-novel-9781620400623","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}