Church of the Graveyard Saints
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Publisher Description
"The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel…with both passion and compassion, Greaves takes readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West."
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Returning to her small Colorado hometown to find her old high school flame newly single and a new gas field threatening her family's cattle ranch, eco–activist Addie Decker ignites an armed conflict revealing cold truths about love and family, forgiveness and self–discovery.
C. JOSEPH GREAVES spent 25 years as an LA trial lawyer before devoting his talents to fiction. Sometimes writing as Chuck Greaves, he has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well as the New Mexico–Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently Tom & Lucky, a Wall Street Journal "Best Books of 2015" selection and finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the Four Corners Free Press newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he lives and writes. You can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel from Greaves (Hard Twisted). Elaborate and poetic descriptions of Cortez, Colo., dictate an unhurried pace and reflect the core of the novel. Addie Decker left the town for college in Los Angeles and fell in love with museums and classical music and academia, none of which she had been exposed to back home. She never really wanted to return, having fallen in love with L.A., but she goes back for the funeral of her grandmother Vivian. Addie brings her laid-back lover Bradley Sommers, who heads the university's Center for Climate Change and has never seen the rugged West. Two complications make Addie's plan of a quick visit problematic: she has inherited Vivian's beloved Red Rocks Ranch, and the reportedly nefarious Archer-Mason corporation has designs on the entire region and wants to acquire Red Rocks. These developments raise the stakes but don't obscure the novel's central question: can one go home again? Greaves explores this question with both passion and compassion, taking readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West.
