“Kittredge’s stories of laconic, isolated men and prodding women are strangely elevating elegies—genuine, unflinching, and tender.” —Barry Lopez

“With their perfect sentences about the weather and the land and the terse, necessary people who live on it, these may be some of the best stories about such matters you’ve ever read.” —Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”

“Kittredge’s stories—graceful, savvy, expansive, poignant, and sometimes even grave—tell us that it is our affections, not our courage or our toughness or our willingness to be unequivocal, that keeps us from one day to another. And that is a truth worth hearing. I only wish there were more of these stories.” —Richard Ford

“Kittredge has a deft hand. The measured rhythm of his prose echoes the deliberate, knowing pace adopted by his characters.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Kittredge treats his characters neither benevolently nor maliciously but with the same detached intimacy with which he regards the grand landscape of the American West he evokes so beautifully.” —Library Journal