Synopses & Reviews
This searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement.
Come West and See is a work both timely and timeless. Set in the Redoubt, an isolated triangle of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into a separatist uprising, these stories explore the loneliness, insecurity, and frustration inherent to love and heartbreak. A lakeside wedding drunkenly devolves into a cruel charade; an unemployed carpenter joins a militia after his wife leaves him; and a former soldier raises the daughter of a dead comrade in a bunker beneath an abandoned farm. Come West and See explores divisions both personal and political, offering startling insights into the wounds of the American people and a powerful new vision of the West.
“A ferocious love letter to the forgotten and the scorned . . . unlike any book you’ll read this year.”— Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood and Kaboom
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"Like postcards from a truthful place, Come West And See holds a mirror up to America — a brutal, ferocious image that carries a beauty unto itself." Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries, basis for the Netflix original series Longmire
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"Maxim Loskutoff highlights life on the other side — the disenfranchised, angry, sullen, rebellious, gun-packing side. See them attempt to create a homeland of their own." William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky
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"Loskutoff writes a good sentence [and] has a fine eye for the meaningful detail…A welcome arrival." Kirkus Reviews
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"A ferocious love letter to the forgotten and the scorned, Come West and See is unlike any book you'll read this year. It blazes with soul." Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood and Kaboom
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"[A]rresting … Gifted at inhabiting his outsiders and resisters, Loskutoff is also capable of portraying the vulnerability of new parenthood with grace ("Stay Here"). A unique and thoughtful evocation of a past, present, and future West, by a writer whose powerful new voice deserves our attention." Booklist
About the Author
A graduate of New York University’s MFA program, Maxim Loskutoff was the recipient of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi, and the M Literary Fellowship in Bangalore. He lives in western Montana.