Dazzling . Vann knows the darkness but he writes from the compassionate light of art. This is an essential book. Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Exceptional .An unflinching portrait of bad faith and bad dreams. Ron Rash, author of Burning BrightSet against the backdrop of Alaska s unforgiving wilderness, Caribou Island is David Vann s dark and captivating tale of a marriage pulled apart by rage and regret. With this eagerly anticipated debut novel, a masterful follow-up to his internationally bestselling short fiction anthology, Legend of a Suicide, Vann takes up the mantle of Louise Erdrich, Marilyn Robinson, and Rick Moody, delivering a powerfully wrought, enthrallingly emotional narrative of struggle and isolation. "
