Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner

Friends, I am a Stegner Head through and through. Angle of Repose was my gateway to the rest of his work, and let me tell you — it changed me. Wally is a genius. He distills an unbridled love of western landscapes right next to a clear and genuine attention to how the west has been mined and extracted. This is a book about mining (it’s not boring, not even close, I promise) and a marriage (his book Crossing to Safety is also about a marriage, and another reading essential!) — gorgeous.