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“Joe Wilkins writes his truths straight from the broken heart of a broken land. When I read his personal stories, so lyrically and wondrously imagined, I feel a beautiful and sometimes terrifying emotion rise up in me–mythic, redemptive, and sustaining. If you want to read what matters, read this.”
-Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
“Joe Wilkins grew up hard in the middle of nowhere—the bent-back, make-do world of the driest, loneliest country in all Montana—and after reading this memoir about the West, about myth, about manhood, about grief and transcendence, I felt at once heartbroken and hopeful and ultimately awed by his ability to twist sentences like barbed wire, his voice wondrously rich with dirt-and-gravel poetry.”
-Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh
“Joe Wilkins grew up on the enormous plains of eastern Montana. He found plenty to respect and revere and plenty to escape. And he learned the stories and how to tell them. The Mountain and the Fathers is vivid and compelling. We’re reading it in Montana in order to understand ourselves. And for the pure pleasure we find in the storytelling.”
-William Kittredge, author of Owning It All and A Hole in the Sky
