This "New York Times" bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century".An august celebration of human frenzy and endurance [and]...an invigorating, intricate first novel. Annie Dillard [shows a] tremendous gift for writing in a genuinely epic mode". "--New York Times Book Review"