Books by Pamela Carter Joern

In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships. With insight, wry humour, and deep compassion, Joern renders a cast of recurring characters engaged in battles public and private, epic and mundane.

In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land - and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. This novel reveals the inner worlds of characters isolated by geography and habit. It bears witness to the fortitude and hard-won wisdom of people whose lives have been forged by devotion to the land.

Tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska family.