I loved The Tiger's Wife when I read it years ago, but I wasn't sure what to expect from this one, which is a historical western set in the American southwest with some supernatural elements, and...camels. Why not. The story follows Lurie, an immigrant and a man wanted for murder, and Nora, a tough frontierswoman waiting for her husband to return from his quest for water during a drought; her two older sons have also disappeared, leaving her with her youngest son Toby, her husband's young cousin (who claims to be clairvoyant), her wheelchair-bound mother-in-law, and the constant voice of her long-dead first child, a daughter named Evelyn. Lurie's story spans his lifetime, Nora's a single day, but they converge in an ending that left me breathless. Obreht's writing is every bit as masterful as I remember, and this novel was worth the wait.