“Skip Yellowstone for this rawer version of the West.”—The New York Times Book Review

“This taut, compelling novel explores the great outdoors—and a realm of moral uncertainty. . . . A ferociously gripping book.”—The Economist 

“One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . . . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you’ve been looking for.”—Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Like [Scott Smith’s] A Simple Plan, Beartooth is a gripping, rural-set adventure novel in which brothers make a terrible decision that permanently alters their lives and their relationship to each other. . . . Wink is a spare, exacting writer. It’s not until Beartooth reaches its raw conclusion that you realize there’s not a word out of place and that virtually all the events in the brothers’ doomed lives seem to have been forecast by the ominous first sentence.”—The Minnesota Star Tribune

“I found something to love on every page of Beartooth, a moving and tightly drawn novel about two brothers trying to eke out a hardscrabble, sometimes illegal living on the edge of Yellowstone after their father dies. Wink is a truly gifted writer.”—Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table

“Beartooth blew me away. Wink writes with an elegant precision that makes the weight of sadness on the heart as palpable as the weight of a past-due notice in his characters’ hands. What begins as propulsively as a finely drawn thriller ultimately resolves itself into something much more profound than that, at times in contact with the ineffable itself. I read it in a single sitting, but I’ll be thinking about it for a long, long time to come.”—Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

“Beartooth sank its teeth into me. I had a hard time closing the covers, getting out of my chair, because I was truly utterly transported to the logging roads and snow-melt rivers of Montana. Wink treats nature as a holy altar and a widening mouth, and he writes a story that moves as fast as a bullet down a barrel. His characters and their troubles—especially the two misfit brothers at the heart of this novel—will live with me for a long time.”—Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon and The Comet Cycle

Thad and Hazen live off the grid, struggling with debt after the death of their father. Thad, the elder brother, is the capable one, while Hazen is a dreamer, more in tune with the wilderness than with people. Then a shadowy out-of-towner called the Scot appears—dressed in a kilt and with a mysterious young woman in tow. He makes the brothers a proposition that is both lucrative and a federal crime—removing resources from Yellowstone National Park, a scheme that becomes more appealing when their long-gone mother shows up, raising troubling questions about the past. A contemporary tale with a timeless feel, Beartooth explores the bonds between brothers, the natural world versus society, and what happens when everything you believed to be true is turned on its head—for worse and for better. 

PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN: 9781954118027
Price: $27.00
On-sale date: 2/11/2025
Weight: 1.05 lbs.