Tom's Crossing

Set in the small Utah city of Orvop in the fall of 1982, Tom's Crossing follows newcomer Kalin March and a friend as their plan to rescue two horses bound for slaughter spirals into a reckoning with the town's deeper history — crimes, cover-ups, and the long shadow cast by the Mormon Church's power and the region's treatment of Native tribes.

Mark Z. Danielewski takes the bones of a pulp Western and stretches them into something closer to horror and myth, moving through only five days of story time while building a sprawling meditation on friendship, grief, and the stories a place tells about itself.