New York: Grove Atlantic Press, Black Cat, (2007). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel set in the 1870s. "With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, this brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of a privileged young man finding self-truth against the birth of a nation struggling to come together, in a novel filled with wit, brilliant characterizations, and descriptions that will leave you feeling as if you can still feel the dust of a buffalo stampede settling around you." (Jodi Picoult) 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0802170361.