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Robert Grenier is a lumberjack who works on a railroad in Idaho. He lives his life to the sound of steam locomotives and makes ends meet for his wife and daughter—until he loses them suddenly and irrevocably. Then the story of human loss turns into an epic of biblical proportions, a piercing monologue in which the hero exists on the edge—literally and figuratively.
This book is about the border of centuries, the border of states, the border of worlds, where animals echo with technology, the forest coexists with people, spirits visit the living, and reality permeates a dream in which the voices of trains and wolves are heard. Who is this whistle of the wind and the steam locomotive for? Why is this howling in the hills of Idaho? And is it true that those whom he has lost will return—if he has enough endurance to wait?