Beartooth

Callan Wink

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"Skip Yellowstone for this rawer version of the West."--The New York Times Book Review

"This taut, compelling novel explores the great outdoors--and a realm of moral uncertainty. . . . A ferociously gripping book."--The Economist

Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of C.J. Box, Donald Ray Pollock, and Larry McMurtry.
Thad and Hazen live off the grid, struggling with debt after the death of their father. Thad, the elder brother, is the capable one, while Hazen is a dreamer, more in tune with the wilderness than with people. Then a shadowy out-of-towner called the Scot appears--dressed in a kilt and with a mysterious young woman in tow. He makes the brothers a proposition that is both lucrative and a federal crime--removing resources from Yellowstone National Park, a scheme that becomes more appealing when their long-gone mother shows up, raising troubling questions about the past. A contemporary tale with a timeless feel, Beartooth explores the bonds between brothers, the natural world versus society, and what happens when everything you believed to be true is turned on its head--for worse and for better.

Book Details

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Publish Date: Feb 11st, 2025
Pages: 256
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.50in - 1.20in - 0.85lb
EAN: 9781954118027
Categories: • Action & Adventure• Crime• Literary

About the Author

Callan Wink has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men's Journal, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of a novel, August, and a collection of short stories, Dog Run Moon. He lives in Livingston, Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River.

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"In this transportive novel of two brothers living on the margins in the Beartooth mountains of Montana . . . Wink mesmerizes with his descriptions of nature and the men's survival skills, and he successfully portrays the brothers' humanity in their dance between struggling for dominance and wanting to support each other."--Publishers Weekly

"A novel of impeccable control and unflinching darkness. And then a glimmer of hope."--Kirkus (starred review)

"One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you've been looking for."--Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Callan Wink's Beartooth shows a Montana that is fueled by grit, vengeance, elbow grease, and desperation. Wink has a poet's eye for the landscape, and his characters are as textured as the mountains they call home."--Steven Rinella, author and host of The MeatEater Podcast

"I found something to love on every page of Beartooth, a moving and tightly drawn novel about two brothers trying to eke out a hardscrabble, sometimes illegal living on the edge of Yellowstone after their father dies. Callan Wink is a truly gifted writer."--Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table

"Callan Wink's Beartooth blew me away. Wink writes with an elegant precision that makes the weight of sadness on the heart as palpable as the weight of a past-due notice in his character's hands. What begins as propulsively as a finely drawn thriller ultimately resolves itself into something much more profound than that, at times in contact with the ineffable itself. I read it in a single sitting, but I'll be thinking about it for a long, long time to come."--Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

"Beartooth sank its teeth into me. I had a hard time closing the covers, getting out of my chair, because I was truly utterly transported to the logging roads and snow-melt rivers of Montana. Callan Wink treats nature as a holy altar and a widening mouth, and he writes a story that moves as fast as a bullet down a barrel. His characters and their troubles--especially the two misfit brothers at the heart of this novel--will live with me for a long time."--Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon and The Comet Cycle