Return To Oakpine: A Novel

"The town of Oakpine, Wyo., doesn’t exist on maps, but in this new book, Ron Carlson has done a splendid job of making a reader feel at home there. It’s also where Jimmy Brand, a successful writer who spent the past 30 years in New York City, returns to die. Long-lost friends gather around him, resuscitating their old rock ’n’ roll band in his honor. The music of everyday human speech and the rhythm section of the human heart resonate in this prairie song of a novel."