Dust

DUST is a searing portrait of working-class America in the 1950s—a time when factories promised prosperity but delivered poison, when small towns held you close enough to suffocate. It's the story of a young man choosing between inherited defeat and the courage to want more. Between saving everything for someday and living recklessly today.

For readers who loved the stark beauty of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the quiet desperation of Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, and the fierce tenderness of Kent Haruf's Plainsong—DUST is an unforgettable debut about the price of staying, the cost of leaving, and the moment you realize you deserve a life that doesn't kill you.