IT IS 2014 in a suburb outside Seattle. Coaxed into tracking down a high school girlfriend turned famous, Keith Timmerman leaves his beloved grandfather at home and, with his friend and kid brother, sets forth down the coast. The shimmering L.A. heat brings the trio luck, but not all good. When a third party interferes, the road trip quickly devolves into nightmares and upheavals, to a violence cold even under the California sun. Evocative in style and acute in vision, Western States is a meditation on brotherhood, love, and the savage depths of man.
Aldwin Grey is an American editor and writer. He is the creator of The Grey Translation series. He holds an MFA and lives in Seattle.