War changes men in ways their loved ones cannot fathom. When Carley Burch receives a haunting letter from her fiancé Glenn, who has returned from the Great War transformed into someone almost unrecognizable, she leaves her world of New York certainty for the alien terrain of Arizona. She must cross vast canyons and confront unforgiving wilderness to reach him, but the real journey is understanding who they've both become. Grey captures a pivotal moment in American consciousness, the uneasy return of traumatized veterans to a civilian world that cannot comprehend their wounds. Carley discovers that healing requires leaving behind the person she was, just as Glenn has had to shed his former self. The novel pulses with the raw beauty and violence of the Southwest, where masculinity is remade through solitude and struggle.
