{"title":"Josh Weil","description":"JOSH WEIL is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea, the novella collection The New Valley, and the story collection The Age of Perpetual Light. He is a Fulbright fellow and has been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a \"5 Under 35\" award from the National Book Foundation, the California Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. For the past dozen years, he has called the Sierra Nevada of Northern California home.","products":[{"product_id":"what-came-west-hardcover","title":"What Came West - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhat Came West\u003c\/i\u003e is astonishing. Unraveling the mythology of the Western with a genius for insight and description, Weil tells the story anew: a beautiful, ruminative, bloody, terrifying and brilliant book about a chapter in the life of one man and in the life of our country. Unmissable.\" --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSierra Nevada, 1840s, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even within his own family, he finds brief solace in love and fatherhood before the pull of the frontier overwhelms him. One day he heads west, chasing a life that might finally make sense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows is a swift, pulse-pounding journey into the mountains, where Silas becomes one of the first white settlers to cross into the Sierra Nevada. He forges a precarious peace with the Indigenous people who live there--until the Gold Rush crashes in with violent force. As thousands flood the region, the balance shatters, and Silas commits murder, a desperate act that alters the course of every life around him, including his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaut and propulsive, \u003ci\u003eWhat Came West\u003c\/i\u003e is told in two parallel voices--one a tense, third-person account of Silas on the run, and the other a confessional letter from Silas to the son he left behind--and confronts many different forms of American inheritance, in all its danger, emotional voltage, and mythic momentum. Weil's masterpiece is a fierce, heart-driven portrait of an outsider racing toward belonging and barreling headlong into consequence.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375123398879,"sku":"9780385550994","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XBGLY0vXFG9780385550994.webp?v=1789193085"},{"product_id":"the-age-of-perpetual-light-paperback","title":"The Age of Perpetual Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A storyteller of the first order.\"--\u003cb\u003eJoshua Ferris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Josh Weil is a spectacular talent.\"--\u003cb\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Glass Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, Sue Kaufman Prize winner and National Book Foundation \"5 Under 35\" author Josh Weil brings together stories selected from a decade of work in one stellar new collection that explores themes of progress, the pursuit of knowledge, and humankind's eternal attempt to decrease the darkness in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning at the dawn of the past century, in the early days of electrification, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night, each tale in The Age of Perpetual Light follows deeply-felt characters through different eras in American history; from a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp, to a 1940 farmers' uprising against the unfair practices of a power company, a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990's Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite, to a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter's autism during winter's longest night. As he did with the rough-living figures in his soulful and \"devastatingly memorable\" (Binnie Kirshenbaum) \u003ci\u003eThe New Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Perpetual Light\u003c\/i\u003e Weil explores through his unforgettable characters our most complex and fraught desires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrilliantly hewn and piercingly observant, these are tales that speak to the all-too-human desire for advancement and the struggle of wounded hearts to find a salve, no matter what the cost. 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