On the Night Plain: A Novel - Hardcover

Explores the complications of love & work; loyalty to family, the land, & one's own desires; & the nature of solitude. This story about a man who reluctantly accepts his birthright in a hard-luck sheep-ranching family redefines the notion of a life worth living. Hoping to make a new life for himself after WW2, Grant Person abandons his family's ranch on the Great Plains for a fishing boat. But the death of his mother draws him back to the ranch left with a couple of hired hands, a sickly flock of sheep, & a pile of debt. Sofia, estranged from her father, struggles to find solace on the ranch, & instead finds herself drawn to Grant. The ensuing context of wills threatens to tear what is left of the Person family apart, & to revive ghosts that Grant had hoped were gone.