Woe to Live On: A Novel

A young man witnesses the unrestrained violence of the Civil War along the American frontier in this novel from the author of Winter's Bone.

"A renegade Western that celebrates the genre while bushwhacking its most cherished traditions." —Chicago Tribune

While armies in the East clash in the great battles of the American Civil War, bands of men seek their own fierce retribution in the heartland.

Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness ...