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“A debut full of atmosphere and awe. Wade gives emotional depth to his dust-covered characters, and creates an image of the American West that is harsh and unforgiving, but—like All Things Left Wild—not without hope.”
Sarah Bird, author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
A Mayor's Book Club of Austin, Texas, Selection
A Barnes & Noble Pick of Best Indie eBooks of 2020
Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Book Award for Debut Fiction
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel
A Pop Sugar Pick of Compelling Historical Fiction Books
A Los Angeles Times Pick of Novels That Show Where to Find the Real America
A powerful and lyrical debut: a botched robbery sets two men on conflicting journeys across the untamed landscape of the American West.
After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Caleb’s moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh terrain and encounter those who have carved out a life there, for good or ill.
Wealthy and bookish Randall Dawson, out of place in this rugged and violent country, is begrudgingly chasing after the Bentley brothers. With little sense of how to survive, much less how to take his revenge, Randall meets Charlotte, a woman experienced in the deadly ways of life in the West. Together they navigate the murky values of vigilante justice.
Powerful and atmospheric, lyrical and fast-paced, All Things Left Wild is a coming-of-age for one man, a midlife odyssey for the other, and an illustration of the violence and corruption prevalent in our fast-expanding country. It artfully sketches the magnificence of the American West as mirrored in the human soul.
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Normally, I'd rate a Western much lower. But this one was written with much more literariness than the standard Western. The descriptions and metaphors are plentiful and rich and pushes the story into deeper territory than the average Western. Bradford Hastings voicing choices for this book adds extra fullness to the story. Wade's characters and storytelling brought me in so fully, that I'd love to see it expanded into a series.
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