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Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
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Not really sure how to rate this because I enjoyed the movie so much more and wasn't expecting the book to be doing something entirely different. The movie, in my opinion, centered on the weight of trauma, grief, and loss. How the consequences of a brief moment in time can reverberate throughout your life. But in the end, there is some type of grace to be found amongst loss and failure. In the novella, there are remnants of that. The same poor decision that cursed the main character in the movie is present in the book. The consequences are also just as devastating. But ultimately, the story of Robert Grainier is a portrait of a person that history tends to forget. And I think that idea that the life of someone seemingly unremarkable can also contain the full weight of the human experience is a larger part of what readers are supposed to takeaway.