The Road Home

'Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.' The Sunday Times 'Set in the heart of America, his stories move with random power and reach, in the manner of Melville and Faulkner.' The Boston Globe 'Harrison is among the foremost writers of the literary generation that has succeeded Styron, Mailer, Jones and Updike.' Philip Caputo 'Harrison's storytelling instincts are nearly flawless.' The New York Times Book Review 'Harrison stands high among the writers of his generation.' The New Yorker Jim Harrison is one of America's most acclaimed writers and in The Road Home he delivers a true American epic. The novel encompasses the story of Dalva's grandfather John Northbridge, the austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch;Naomi, the widow of his favourite son and namesake; Paul, the first Nelse, the son taken from Dalva at birth, who now has returned to find her. It is a family history drenched in suffering and joy, imbued with fierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and intertwined with the destiny of whites and Native Americans. Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the nineteenth century to the present day, The Road Home is a stunning and trenchant novel, written with humour and humanity.