“The multitude of characters intertwined in parallel stories are connected by a pioneering spirit and a creative narration.”
      —AudioFile

“One can only imagine that Ballerini put every ounce of his experience to good use in his narration of this epic, an almost all encompassing tale peopled with a variety of characters from different time periods. . . . He certainly rose to the challenge and gives us a highly listenable reading.”
      —Gail Cooke, Beauty by the Books

“The kind of work that begs to be called sweeping, with its large cast of characters encompassing multiple eras, sturdy American themes of community and nature, and a style that could be called cinematic—specifically, Altmanesque . . . ”
      —Entertainment Weekly

“[A] booming, bighearted epic.”
      —Vanity Fair

“Evison, author of this audacious historical novel, manages a near-impossible feat: first, he creates an almost absurdly complex narrative structure, bridging more than 100 years of life in Washington State and encompassing multiple points of view, and then he grounds the sublime architechtonic whole in the vividly realized daily lives of characters who exist completely in their individual moments but whose actions reverberate back and forth across time.”
      —Booklist [starred review]

“Well-plotted, literate novel of the 19th-century settling of a corner of the West and the still-resounding echoes of decisions made long ago.”
      —Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

“Satisfyingly meaty work. . . . A big novel about the discovery and rediscovery of nature, starting over, and the sometimes piercing reverberations of history, this is a damn fine book.”
      —Publishers Weekly [starred review]

“Deserves national acclaim.”
      —Library Journal [starred review]

“Every sentence, character and hard-won patch of Pacific Northwestern earth shimmers with kinetic truth.”
      —James P. Othmer, author of The Futurist

“Intelligent, insightful, poignant, funny, endlessly entertaining and perpetually thought-provoking.”
      —David Liss, author of Whiskey Rebels

“A creative bonanza of a novel.”
      —Jim Lynch, author of The Highest Tide and Border Songs

“Evison’s odd genius is to structure his novel geographically, its jagged edges and swirling storylines a mirror of the toothy mountains and uneven estuaries of its setting. . . . The story, like the river, keeps flowing, its author showing us that there are some frontiers humans can never fully tame.”
      —Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Evison, a tremendously gifted storyteller, has staked claim to a wondrous frontier he can proudly call his own.”
      —San Francisco Chronicle

“West of Here is a sprawling tragicomic novel about identity—national and personal—that’s as entertaining as it is insightful into the human need to make a mark on the landscape. . . . What makes it big and unforgettable is Evison’s wide-raging imagination and gifted storytelling.”
      —Miami Herald

“A jaunty, rain-slicked quest story, fat and close to the earth as a smoky cedar log. . . . [West of Here’s] ending is clever and satisfying, and its arrival could signal the breakout of a promising career.”
      —The Plain Dealer

“His narrative maintains a realistic style that feels honest and genuine. . . . Evison’s language is clear and easy to read, and he provides stunningly beautiful descriptions of the Pacific Northwest . . . The comprehensive detail of Evison’s descriptions of nature reveals his deep knowledge of the beauty and potential danger of the region.”
      —The Harvard Crimson

“Evison effectively alternates the time lines, heightening the impact of both narratives. . . . This is a novel that a reader can settle into, a work that is, most of all, a darned good story.”
      —Denver Post

“Enjoyable, meaty . . . a vision of a place told through the people who find themselves at the edge of America’s idea of itself.”
      —Los Angeles Times

“Lots of books deal with adventure. A few are adventures in reading. Jonathan Evison’s ambitious novel, West of Here is one of them. . . . Evison’s prose is as muscular as his setting.”
      —USA Today

JONATHAN EVISON is the author of All About Lulu, which won the Washington State Book Award. He is the recipient of a 2009 Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. He lives on an island in Puget Sound.