Publisher's Synopsis
Wayne Waters, a powerful and reckless country music singer, has sired three sons: Kian, a young Montana journalist bent on self-destruction; Joey, a desperately lonely young writer and borderline schizophrenic whose reality is distorted by religious zealotry common in the modern West; and, Large At Night, a half-breed Indian struggling with the knowledge that while white men have made a wasteland of the West, they are also in his blood. As the brothers are drawn closer and closer to one another, their inner fatalism and the instinct for revenge fuels tragedy. Their sister Kate, the narrator, struggles to save them but in the end must fight to save herself and her sanity as the family tragedy unfolds and she herself succumbs to revenge. Kate writes: "Survival was not the first instinct of my brothers, those first men in my life, those sons of Wayne. Revenge led the way, with a pen and with a knife."
