American Copper

In large part because I am embarrassed about how self-important I became after my first book was published, I pay close attention to my fellow writers, and am always amused at how many newly published authors go through a phase where they believe that everything that comes out of their mouth is abs......more

An absolutely beautiful book of family love and the limits of loyalty. Don't be put off by my alliteration here. Shann Ray's every page is truly lyrical and a sensory experience of the American West unlike any I've read yet. Horses, bears, mountains and rivers and ridges and flowers. And butterflies......more

These days women are portrayed as heroes running through woods, flashing swords, guns or light sabers, showing men how to be accurate shots, how to be brave. These are flashy, slender -- always slender -- heroes -- but not women I can relate to. When American Book Award winner Shann Ray skyped into t......more

If I compared a book to a twilit mountain range washed in purples and oranges and reds, the sight of it causing you, the reader who has trudged through a dull landscape of ordinary novels, to stumble in your sojourn and fall to one knee in reverence for the toothy horizon; and if I said reading this......more

Set a century ago in Montana, the book explores xenophobia towards the Cheyenne and Chinese. The plot moves slowly, but the book is redeemed by lyrical, almost mystical writing.......more