Goat Mountain

<p>In David Vann's searing novel <em>Goat Mountain</em> an 11-year-old boy at his family's annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land a 640-acre ranch in Northern California and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture tragedy erupts shattering lives irrevocably.<br /> <br />In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us and the consequences of our actions--what we owe for what we've done.<br /> <br />David Vann is the award-winning author of <em>Legend of a Suicide</em> <em>Caribou Island</em> <em>A Mile Down</em> and <em>Last Day on Earth</em>.</p>