{"product_id":"west-1","title":"West","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) * \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(UK) * \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e * The Los Angeles Public Library * \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Independent \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eReal Simple *\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Carys Davies is a deft, audacious visionary.\" --Téa Obreht\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mother's gold ring to call her own, Bess, unprotected and approaching womanhood, fills lonely days tracing her father's route on maps at the subscription library and waiting for his letters to arrive. Bellman, meanwhile, wanders farther and farther from home, across harsh and alien landscapes, in reckless pursuit of the unknown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Frank O'Connor Award winner Carys Davies, \u003ci\u003eWest \u003c\/i\u003eis a spellbinding and timeless epic-in-miniature, an eerie parable of the American frontier and an electric monument to possibility.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942048497895,"sku":"9781501179358","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_8ff6c978-685e-45f8-927a-638295856ca6.jpg?v=1775244432","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/west-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}