East of Eden by John Steinbeck Poetry A decades-spanning family saga featuring

A decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after one event changes their lives forever

a real humanity

"—Tom Bissell

Mexican author Gerardo Sámano Córdova revels in the mire of grief

specifically Ted Bundy

East of Eden by John Steinbeck Poetry A decades-spanning family saga featuringA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of Americas most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two familiesthe Trasks and the