Praise for Beyond the Fallen Timber
"In his timely and powerful debut novel, Devin Bradley offers us an intimate portrait of an entire community, one he paints with compassion, insight, and quiet humor. Dwelling with these characters, we come to know their blemishes and quirks, the splinters of memory and regret still lodged within them, and what allows them to persist nonetheless. As with the trees that surround them and upon which they depend for their livelihoods, Bradley traces the concentric rings that make up lives, showing us how a person or town might sway, fall or hold fast. A lyrical, gripping foray into a landscape and people whose fates--as is the case for us all--are intertwined."
-Tim Horvath,
Author of Understories
"Devin Bradley’s splendid story collection, Beyond the Fallen Timber, exists in the shadows beneath the forest’s spreading branches, deftly revealing the most curious creature of that hidden world: humans who choose to live there. Time and again, Bradley indelibly captures the collision between solitary lives and the basic need for society, however small. Along the way, it’s a delight of practical knowledge about life in the wild. Not least of all, the prose is immaculate."
-Roy Parvin
Author of The Loneliest Road In America and In the Snow Forest
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