Lions

✍ Scribed by Bonnie Nadzam

• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Black Cat
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 235 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Bonnie Nadzam--author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning debut, Lamb --returns with this scorching, haunting portrait of a rural community in a "living ghost town" on the brink of collapse, and the individuals who are confronted with either chasing their dreams or--against all reason--staying where they are.
Lions is set on the high plains of Colorado, a nearly deserted place, steeped in local legends and sparse in population. Built to be a glorious western city upon a hill, it was never fit for farming, mining, trading, or any of the illusory sources of wealth its pioneers imagined. The Walkers have been settled on its barren terrain for generations--a simple family in a town otherwise still taken in by stories of bigger, better, brighter.
When a traveling stranger appears one day, his unsettling presence sets off a chain reaction that will change the fates of everyone he encounters. It begins with the patriarch John Walker as he...