Tea obreht - inland (Orion)

FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST: 'THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE BEEN WAITING FOR OBREHT'S NEXT NOVEL WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED' 'SPECTACULAR' - Guardian 'A WONDER' - Daily Mail 'SPARKLING' - The Times 'EXQUISITE' - Observer 'MAGNIFICENT' - TLS 'EPIC' - Entertainment Weekly 'A TRIUMPH' - LitHub 'INFECTIOUS' - Financial Times 'A MASTERPIECE' - Sunday Express Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home - and her husband's seventeen-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits.

Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted aby ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West.

Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Téa Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely - and unforgettably - her own.

'This free-ranging tale of an American frontierswoman should have been on the Booker longlist... I'm already looking forward to whatever Obreht writes next' - Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times 'Magnificent...

Brings to mind Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Toni Morrison's Beloved' - Times Literary Supplement 'Exquisite... The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself...

paranormal element reminds us strongly of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo...