Spirit Walk

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“Treiber sets a rapid thrilling pace…”
–“THE UTAH REVIEW”
“A thrilling and elegantly wrought debut about the far-reaching effects of our decisions, and our irrepressible desire to undo the worst of them.
Treiber is a writer of enormous talents, and “Spirit Walk” will leave you breathless until the final page.”
–JONATHAN EVISON, author of “The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving”
“At once gritty and lyrical, “Spirit Walk” is a haunting tale of the modern American West.
Out of the explosive violence, hard living, and stark beauty of the Arizona borderlands, Jay Treiber has woven a gripping story of remembrance and redemption, beautifully painting the place and giving voice to its people.
I can’t stop thinking about it.”
–JENNIFER CARRELL, author of “Haunt Me Still” and “Interred with Their Bones”
“The borderland setting of “Spirit Walk” only appears empty.
This landscape is inhabited by commingled cultures, criss-crossed jurisdictions and colliding values–where a rancher wouldn’t leave a bottle cap, traffickers litter bodies.
Depicting an episode of violence as confounding in memory as the day it erupted, Jay Treiber shows the corrosive costs of the drug trade–and of burying the past.
In the vein of Philip Caputo’s “Crossers.””
–CHARLIE QUIMBY, author of “Monument Road”
“There’s a wonderful sense of authenticity and place here…Jay Treiber has given us a rich, well-written, multi-layered book to satisfy wide reading appetites.”
–ROBERT HOUSTON, author of “Bisbee 17”
“In this intersection of New West and Old West, Jay Treiber writes without sentiment about life, love, and death in the borderlands of the American southwest.
“Spirit Walk” bleeds a rawness and honesty missing from much of today’s fiction–this triumph belongs within the canon of western literature.
Watch out, Cormac!”
–ANDY NETTELL, owner of Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT