The Sheep Queen: A Novel

A Western family story at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho: Emma, the matriarch, known as the Sheep Queen; the daughter who disappoints her; the grandson who adores her; and the granddaughter, given up for adoption, who spends nearly half her life finding her way back to her family.

" The Sheep Queen is marvelous . . . Her reign has a mythic grandeur." — New York Times Book Review

"A masterful novelist writing at the peak of his form. . . . The Sheep Queen touches the reader directly and powerfully . . . concerned as it is with such timeless matters as the continuity of family, the bonds of love, the yearning for roots and identity." — Washington Post Book World

"A fine novel . . . A sense of family as anchor and root and self-definition [gives] the book its considerable strength . . . Savage is a writer of the first order, and he possesses in abundance the novelist's highest art—the ability to illuminate and move." — The New Yorker