In The Snow Forest: Three Novellas

"Each of the three stories in this book is its own secret masterpiece. . . . Parvin is the real deal." -Antonya Nelson

Montana, Wyoming, and the Trinity Alps of northern California are the landscapes of these elegant, rough-hewn narratives where people yearn for grace even as their chances are running out. "Roy Parvin has a sense of what people will do when they have reached their particular limits," says Charles Baxter, "and these wonderful tales are like visions." A recently paroled ex-con...