Book Log 2022 #42: In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Brothers Håkan and Linus Söderström are sent away from their Swedish home by their father, a struggling farmer, in the hopes that they'll find a better life. Joining the growing wave of immigrants to the US, they are separated, and Håkan winds up in California. Believing that Linus is still in New York City, Håkan sets out on an epic trek eastward to rejoin him. The story of that trip, the people Håkan meets, and how he deals with being alone in a new and foreboding country, is told in this novel.

To be honest, I was looking to read Diaz's most recent book, Trust, but the waiting time for my hold was months long, so I turned to his earlier novel instead. I did like it, but it did bump against my general disinterest in Westerns. Not that it's a traditional Western. But it's still a genre I'm not that interested in. To put it in context of other Westerns I've read recently, I think I liked The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu more, but liked this much, much more than The Last Kind Words Saloon.