The Stone Place — Randy Lee Eickhoff

Randy Lee Eickhoff brings a new look to the Western genre with The Stone Place. When John Henry Stone returns home to his family's South Dakota ranch after being wounded in Vietnam, everything has changed â€"his father is dead and his uncle has gained control of the property, and everyone seems to be falling apart. Johnny sets out to unravel the mystery, even as he struggles not to unravel himself. With alternating points of view and timelines, and stream-of-consciousness prose, the novel is both Shakespearean and Faulknerian… and deeply affecting.