One of Time Magazine’s Top-Five Books of the Year.  A Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.

Leif Enger’s best-selling debut is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, to which “what could be unbelievable becomes extraordinary” (Connie Ogle, The Miami Herald).  Enger brings us eleven year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles.  Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw brother who has been controversially charged with murder.  Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates.  (From the book’s back-cover)