Jonathan Evison Books in Order

William Miller grows up a vegetarian outsider in a family of bodybuilders, then develops an overwhelming crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. Her departure for college sends him into an uncertain search for identity, friendship and a life of his own.

In a struggling Washington settlement, Ethan Thornburgh dreams of prosperity through a dam on the Elwha River. More than a century later, his descendant faces its removal, linking generations whose ambitions and disappointments have shaped the same small town.

After losing his family and livelihood, Ben Benjamin trains as a caregiver and begins working with a difficult teenager who has muscular dystrophy. Their uneasy relationship becomes an unexpected friendship as a road trip challenges them both to reenter the world.

Seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance takes an Alaskan cruise planned by her recently deceased husband. Hoping for renewal, she instead confronts unsettling discoveries about her marriage and family, forcing her to reconsider the life she thought she understood.

Young landscaper Mike Muñoz loses another menial job and decides something in his life must change. With few qualifications and uncertain prospects, he searches for opportunity, belonging and a version of the American dream that might include him.

Haunted by war and personal loss, Dave Cartwright takes his seven-year-old daughter into the Pacific Northwest wilderness. Living in a cave, they struggle toward winter while the girl becomes absorbed in visions of another family that sheltered there thousands of years earlier.

Four families traveling on a modern passenger train carry histories reaching back to the building of America. Across five generations, their ancestors’ separate journeys converge, revealing how migration, ambition and shared struggles connect lives that first appear unrelated.

Nursing-home resident Eugene Miles claims he has lived for a thousand years, pursuing a love first lost in medieval Spain. His skeptical assistant Angel tries to understand whether his extraordinary stories conceal delusion, loneliness or something far harder to explain.

After seventy years together, Abe and Ruth Winter face a crisis when Ruth develops a serious illness. As their children question Abe’s ability to care for her, the couple must reshape a partnership built through decades of affection, secrets and loss.