Praise for Wedding Bush Road:
"Francis's prose is urgent and at times breathless, packed with sense-rich descriptions. Poetic images swirl off the page . . . Wedding Bush Road envelopes us in a strange world where nothing can be taken for granted. This is a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Francis proves that this reckless landscape also has a darkly seductive pull...Domestic drama with an offbeat, rural flavor." --Kirkus "In prose as severely beautiful as the land depicted, Francis takes us into the bleeding heart of family. Well recommended for many readers." --Library Journal "A rich and moving and resonant story about the debts we owe to the people and places of our past, with writing so evocative that it feels like burying your face in the Australian soil. David Francis has given us a masterpiece, a novel for anyone who's ever left their hometown." --Nathan Hill, author of The Nix "David Francis writes with precision and sensitivity about that most complicated of subjects: Home. Amid unforgettable landscapes and characters that are both beautiful and violent, Wedding Bush Road grapples with discontent and restlessness. Francis turns a sharp but generous eye on those who won't leave and those who can't stay, reminding us that family can be the most dangerous place of all." --Mark Sarvas, author of Harry, Revised "The miracle of Wedding Bush Road is that each deeply flawed character is also right. In the end we come to feel that beneath so much fury, the troubled and idiosyncratic life of each character is driven by a logic that is emotional and likely also moral. That this is the human condition.. Compelling and honest, this is the novel's greatest gift. This is the masterful feat achieved here in these pages."--Mary Rakow, author of This Is Why I Came "Here's an Australia so tactile that the page itself begins to feel textured. Francis ably tells a story of a man's internal struggle as expressed through conflicts as rooted and primal as the soil. A dynamic and inviting read." --Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master "I have known David Francis and his work for a long time, and I think Wedding Bush Road is his best book yet!" --Jane Smiley "With an eye for the transcendent detail, and a pitch perfect ear, David Francis gorgeously summons a farm in rural Australia. The wonderfully complex relationships among its inhabitants reflect nothing less than the tensions wrought by the country's fractious history of colonialism. Who belongs to the land and to whom does the land belong? These are the uneasy questions raised by this searching, lovely novel." --Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin "A psychologically acute tale of the decline of a patrician Australian family and the forces arrayed against them. Class, sex and land knit together in this compellingly modern take on a timeless struggle. Gorgeous, dangerous and utterly captivating. " --Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black "Who hasn't packed a bag and headed home? Wedding Bush Road is a beautiful, intelligent book about love, loss, and the unforgettable landscapes that made us who we are." --David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife Praise for The Great Inland Sea "Beautiful and moving." --Times Literary Supplement "As unforgiving and seductive as Riverina itself." --Los Angeles Times "Magically lyrical...a truly rewarding literary find." --Denver Post ..".gracefully [and] affecting first novel." - Washington Post "David Francis may not be a poet, but he sure writes like one. His prose is lean but dreamy, full of sensual detail...It's all done with skill and elegance." - San Francisco Chronicle "Francis's language confirms and compliments the plot...The guiding insight of the book [is] that there is something deep, something meaningful, about the process by which humanity is achieved even when so much has been stripped away." --The Believer "An elegant first novel..the author's evocative images of Australia --the harsh yet compelling landscape, the searing heat, the inescapable dust, the ever present insects -- and his spare, elegiac style set this novel apart from most coming of age stories as Day's innocence is refreshed with maturity and hopefulness." -- Booklist, starred review "As spare as the outback, this is a quietly evocative and at times even poetic first novel." --Library Journal "Spare prose, startling images, and an emotional landscape as harsh as the setting." --Kirkus Reviews "Arresting and mysterious." --Jane Smiley "Loneliness and loss well up like groundwater in this spare, haunting novel. David Francis is a master of elegant understatement." --Janet Fitch "A compelling dance across a stark and evocative landscape. Each step reveals a new perspective on the characters' humanity and, at times, their brutality." --Manil Suri "A truly amazing novel." --Susan Straight "A spare, dark, brilliant book. Clear the day to read it." - Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park Praise for Stray Dog Winter Best Book of the Year (The Advocate)A young lawyer in Los Angeles is called back to his family's farm in rural Australia and plunged into a complex struggle between past and present, town and country, and the secrets that haunt them all.
When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away to the family’s horse farm on Wedding Bush Road, one hundred miles outside of Melbourne. Estranged from his parents, Daniel is hesitant to revisit their history: long divorced, his mother still maintains the farm having put out her cheating, rakish husband, and even in these later years her anger burns brightly.
Daniel arrives at the farm in the heat of his parents’ conflict with Sharen, an alluring tenant and ex-lover of his father now perched on family land. Sharen and her unstable son Reggie complicate an already difficult family dynamic while Daniel has to tend to his mother’s condition, his father’s contentious behavior, and the swell of memory that strikes whenever he visits the farm. As Daniel is increasingly drawn to Sharen, the various tensions across the farm will spark events that cannot help but change them all.
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