"Readers who brave the wilderness with these mismatched brothers--and a supporting cast of eccentric characters--are in for a grand adventure rendered in rich, atmospheric prose. This outdoor thriller wouldn''t be misplaced on a shelf alongside certain tales by Faulkner, Hemingway or Steinbeck." -- Wall Street Journal "This taut, compelling novel explores the great outdoors--and a realm of moral uncertainty. A ferociously gripping book."-- The Economist "Any reader seeking a refreshing corrective to the soap opera version of the American West offered by Paramount''s TV hit Yellowstone would be well advised to pick up Callan Wink''s new novel, Beartooth . These action-filled passages are absorbing, elegantly written andsometimes thrilling. An original and impressive piece of work."-- The New York Times Book Review "Anatmospheric and superbly executed drama .
Thriller elements arepresent and skillfully realized in the narrative, but Wink proceeds farmore interestingly, developing Beartooth into an expansive andconvincing novel of family relationships. Wink''s descriptions ofnature are superbly precise and vivid, never anthropomorphizing theworld and its non-human inhabitants. The western trope of the strong,self-reliant individual contending with a lyrically describedenvironment and its gnarled human inhabitants, driven by violentimpulses and private moral codes, is upturned by Wink''s close,convincing and unsentimental observations of people and nature.This makes Beartooth an emotionally rich and compelling piece of storytelling."-- The Guardian "Like [Scott Smith''s] A Simple Plan , Beartooth is a gripping, rural-set adventure novel in which brothers make aterrible decision that permanently alters their lives and theirrelationship to each other. Wink is a spare, exacting writer. It''snot until Beartooth reaches its raw conclusion that you realizethere''s not a word out of place and that virtually all the events in thebrothers'' doomed lives seem to have been forecast by the ominous firstsentence."-- The Minnesota Star Tribune "Inthis transportive novel of two brothers living on the margins in theBeartooth mountains of Montana .
Wink mesmerizes with hisdescriptions of nature and the men''s survival skills, and hesuccessfully portrays the brothers'' humanity in their dance betweenstruggling for dominance and wanting to support each other."-- Publishers Weekly "Wink''shighly readable second novel . is at once thoroughly wild andthoroughly intimate. The modest poetry of Callan''s prose does justiceboth to the beauty of the wilderness and to the complexity of thebrothers'' relationship."-- The New Statesman "A novel of impeccable control and unflinching darkness. And then a glimmer of hope."-- Kirkus (starred review) "A combination of talented writer and knowledgeable outdoorsman, Wink reminds me of Peter Heller. But A Simple Plan --Scott Smith''s ''93 thriller-turned-''98 movie--is the most obvious comparison here.
-- The Boston Globe "Wink knows his setting inside out. Definitely a writer to stick with."-- Daily Mail "A dual consciousness--of the sublime and exalted nature of the universe, and of its utter dispassion--flows through the novel."-- The Irish Times "Tense and gripping."-- The Gloss "One of the best and fiercest heist stories since A Simple Plan . Beartooth is unstoppable, the literary treasure you''ve been looking for."-- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize - winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao " Beartooth shows a Montana that is fueled by grit, vengeance, elbow grease, anddesperation. Wink has a poet''s eye for the landscape, and his charactersare as textured as the mountains they call home.
"-- Steven Rinella, author and host of The MeatEater Podcast "I found something to love on every page of Beartooth ,a moving and tightly drawn novel about two brothers trying to eke out ahardscrabble, sometimes illegal living on the edge of Yellowstone aftertheir father dies. Callan Wink is a truly gifted writer."-- Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table " Beartooth blew me away. Wink writes with an elegant precision that makes theweight of sadness on the heart as palpable as the weight of a past-duenotice in his character''s hands. What begins as propulsively as a finelydrawn thriller ultimately resolves itself into something much moreprofound than that, at times in contact with the ineffable itself. Iread it in a single sitting, but I''ll be thinking about it for a long,long time to come."-- Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds " Beartooth sank its teeth into me. I had a hard time closing the covers, gettingout of my chair, because I was truly utterly transported to the loggingroads and snow-melt rivers of Montana.
Callan Wink treats nature as aholy altar and a widening mouth, and he writes a story that moves asfast as a bullet down a barrel. His characters and theirtroubles--especially the two misfit brothers at the heart of thisnovel--will live with me for a long time."-- Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon and The Comet Cycle "Callan Wink''s Beartooth evokes the breathtaking beauty of Yellowstone in its tense exploration of the complicated love and survival of two brothers."-- Shelf Awareness "Wink,who is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River when he''s notwriting beautifully told short stories and novels, is a mastercraftsman: his dialogue is pitch perfect, his characters breathtakinglyreal, and the setting so vividly described that we can feel the mudseeping into our socks and hear the water from the hole in the ceilingplinking into the metal bowl on the floor. A remarkable, memorablenovel."-- Booklist "A narrative filled withtension and suspense . Through his eloquent yet gritty prose, Winkcaptures the stark beauty of Montana''s landscape and the raw, unfilteredemotions of his characters. Beartooth is not a story ofsurvival in the traditional sense but an exploration of what it means totruly live, to forgive and to find strength in the most unlikely ofplaces.
A gripping tale of survival and redemption."-- Rocky Mountain Reader.