Journeys | Jody Ferguson Blog

The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a book set in the Mountain West and Canada in the first three decades of the 20th century.

It was with this in mind and to try to better understand the situation, that I took up William Dalrymple’s history Return of a King.

Jennifer Egan’s novel Manhattan Beach is one of the best-written books I have read recently. The language is rich, and the nuanced story...