talked to Obreht about assimilation, the ghosts of the path and camels. As Nora’s and Lurie’s timelines converge and they encounter Native Americans and Mexicans along the way, Obreht uses their stories to investigate who gets to settle the land and who gets displaced. Thankfully, book critic Ron Charles doesn't spoil any surprises. Lurie finds himself falling in with a band of wranglers, all of whom had been transported to the deserts of the American West from the Middle East along with their unlikely charges: a group of five camels. Ta Obreht's second novel, 'Inland,' is a magical American western set in the 19th century. Inland contains two narrative threads: It follows a day in the life of Nora Lark, a hardened frontierswoman who must locate water during a drought while her husband and eldest sons are away, and who also tends to chat with her deceased daughter regularly and the adventures of Lurie, an immigrant from the Ottoman Empire who also has a tendency to see ghosts.
Obreht reimagines the American western with a combination of urgency and dread in Inland, set in the oppressive heat and dust of the Arizona Territory in 1893. If The Tiger’s Wife explores the mythology of a Balkan country, seemingly based on the 33-year-old author’s birthplace of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, then Inland unravels the legends and lore of her current homeland, the United States. It’s difficult not to feel thirsty while reading Inland, Téa Obreht’s expansive second novel following The Tigers’s Wife, her National Book Award–nominated 2011 debut.
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