Christine Byl‘s first novel, Lookout, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It follows a working class family across four decades of heartbreak, struggle, fire, and hope. Claire Boyles, author of Site Fidelity, said “each character’s struggle to live authentically is as rich and clearly rendered as the Montana landscape that sustains them.”
The following excerpt is from the first chapter, “Start Small,” which is set in July 1986. Readers find The Kinzler family – parents Josiah and Margaret and their children Cody and Louisa – in their small homestead in Northwest Montana.
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