"Willy Vlautin's characters blaze with honesty, fighting for their slim chance at the American dream."--Rene Denfeld, author of The Butterfly Girl and The Child Finder Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, regret, and hard-won empathy in this poignant novel--his most personal to date--that captures the life of a journeyman musician unable to escape the tragedies of his past. Al Ward lives on an isolated mining...