Lions

Bonnie Nadzam—author of Lamb, a critically acclaimed, award-winning debut novel—returns with an unforgettable tale about the American frontier. Lions takes place near a frontier town rotting on the prairie of Colorado. The town, built to be a glorious western city upon a hill, never fit for farming, mining, trading, or any of the illusory sources of wealth its pioneers imagined. The Walkers have been settled there as a simple family in a town otherwise still taken in by stories of bigger, better, brighter. When a mysterious stranger appears one day amidst the dusty streets, his unsettling presence sets off a chain reaction that will change the fates of everyone he encounters.