The Road Home continues the story of the captivating heroine Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family. This epic tale encompasses the voices of Dalva’s grandfather, John Northridge, the austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch; Naomi, the widow of his favorite son and namesake; Paul, the first Northridge son, who lived in the shadow of his brother; and 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 in the American West. 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 the humor, humanity, and inimitable evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison’s legion of fans.

This novel is a graceful exploration of nature and the human spirit, bringing to life the wilds of Nebraska and the intricate tapestry of family and history. To read this book is to feel the luminosity of nature in one’s own being.