Author: kentharuf

With over 15,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: A widow and widower find comfort in each other in this profound novel from a National Book Award finalist. “Poignant… demonstrates that our desire to love and to be loved does not dissolve with age” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

A “highly charged and compassionate” New York Times bestseller (The New Yorker) from a National Book Award finalist: The community of Holt, Colorado, grapples with grief, hardship, and hope in this “moving exploration of small-town lives” (Publishers Weekly) with nearly 7,300 five-star Goodreads ratings.

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl — her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house — is pregnant with … pregnant with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they’ve ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a…