Literature like a night outdoors. It is a place where work is usually hard, money is tight, and nature is magnificent, threaded by the Yellowstone River, with the Rockies on the horizon. For the men in Callan Wink's stories, it is the last best place and their home. Yet each of them risks getting lost in the vastness of today's American West: One pays for a punch with two years in prison. Another throws everything away to toil on a farm. And yet another, out of compassion, frees a dog, only to flee moments later from two armed crazies across the rocks through the night, barefoot and naked. Callan Wink has written a book about longing, guilt, and the struggle against nature. "The Last Best Place" is the stunning debut of a storyteller who follows in the footsteps of Richard Ford and Philipp Meyer.