The Orchardist — Amanda Coplin

Set against the rugged beauty of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, Amanda Coplin's debut novel, The Orchardist, introduces readers to William Talmadge and his lovingly cultivated orchards of apples and apricots. Coplin's characters are deeply rooted in the mystery of the American West, and she brings them together, like the grafting of Talmadge's trees, to form a unique family bound not by blood but by the shared experience of tragedy, the land, and ultimately fate