A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearFrom the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado.When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with...

KENT HARUF is the author of The Tie That Binds, Where You Once Belonged, Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction. (And, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance.) He died in November 2014, at the age of 71.

Kent Haruf's honors include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His most recent novel, Plainsong, won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los...

From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a h...

"Taut and deadly. . . . A terse and beautifully wrought narration."  --Los Angeles Times"A beautifully told parable--simple and stark and true." --Newsday"Where You Once Belonged speaks with the authenticity of . . . Hemingway and Faulkner."...

Kent Haruf has received prestigious awards, including a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for his finely-tuned works. Before the opening chapter of this novel, Haruf offers a definition. Plainsong is "any simple and unadorned melody o...