What Came West Heaven: Why It Matters Here

Heaven: Why It Matters Here and Now

"Thomson proves anew that he is irreplaceable

the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map

For Balthasar

Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened

What Came West Heaven: Why It Matters HereA gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide. "What Came West is astonishing. Unraveling the mythology of the Western with a genius for insight and description, Weil tells the story anew: a beautiful, ruminative, bloody, terrifying and brilliant book about a chapter in the life of one man and in the life of our country. Unmissable." Andrew Sean Greer,