West of Here

Set in the mythical town of Port Bonita, Washington, with part of the narrative focused on the town's founders in 1890, and the other part set in 2006 revolving around the lives of their descendants.

NPR wrote "The novel centers on the story of a fictional town in the Pacific Northwest, told from the perspectives of the people who first settled there and their modern-day counterparts, who now have to live with the decisions that their ancestors made."^[3]