The Meadow

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A mountain meadow on the Colorado–Wyoming border anchors this century-spanning novel, while generations of ranchers, homesteaders, and wanderers struggle to make lives in its demanding landscape. Severe winters, isolation, difficult labor, and recurring loss shape people who may claim the land but are also claimed by it. Rather than following one continuous plot, the book moves through linked episodes and shifting viewpoints, allowing individual attachments and hardships to accumulate into a communal history. Human plans remain temporary beside weather, animals, water, and the slow alteration of the terrain. The Meadow combines the intimacy of family narrative with a broader meditation on endurance, belonging, memory, and the costs of inhabiting the American West.

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