Good Ground, (Paperback)

<p>Montana, 1958. The dust is still settling. A train is going away down the valley. A section hand sits on the gravel embankment, his hands shaking. A few feet from him, a young woman sits looking at the place where the train was. She does not seem to be breathing hard.</p><p>He does not ask the question he reaches for. She thanks him and walks the six miles to Crandall.</p><p>That is where <i>Good Ground</i> begins.</p><p>What follows is a year in a valley that is losing its railroad. Martin Voss maintains the branch line through its last season - tamping ballast, clearing drainage, keeping the track right for trains that will stop running in June. Ruth Alder takes a job at the grain elevator, a room at Mrs. Pell's boarding house, a stool at Roy's diner. Neither speaks of the embankment. Neither leaves.</p><p><i>Good Ground</i> is a novel about two people learning to stay somewhere. It moves at the pace of the work and the season - the freeze, the thaw, the long flat winter light on the valley floor. It does not explain itself. Neither do its characters.</p><p></p>

• Good Ground, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798252125558
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-15
• Page Count: 110