{"product_id":"the-lund-covenant-9798234031600","title":"The Lund Covenant","description":"\u003cp\u003eA literary novel of the American West - set in the red-rock country of Emery County, Utah, where silence is its own language and the desert keeps what people bury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Gill Lund returns to Castle Dale, Utah after his father's death, he means to stay three days. Long enough to bury the man, settle the estate, and get back to the life he built on the far side of twelve years and a lot of open country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe town has other plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis father - quiet, stubborn, never a man who explained himself - had been driving into the desert at odd hours, tending water caches hidden in the San Rafael Swell. Small mercies for travelers in desperate need, unmarked and unannounced. Until someone found them and destroyed them, methodically, with bleach and a serrated blade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGill is a photojournalist. He has spent his career learning how to frame other people's conflicts and walk away. Now the evidence leads somewhere no one in Castle Dale wants to look - into a small Mormon community fracturing under the weight of a secret it was never meant to surface - and he has to decide whether he is willing to step into the story instead of standing behind the camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lund Covenant is a novel about moral inheritance: the obligations that place imposes, the cost of bearing witness, and what changes when a man decides to stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComparable to Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Ron Rash's Serena, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, and Paulette Jiles's News of the World.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg Maxfield grew up in Emery County, Utah. The Lund Covenant is his debut novel. Approximately 82,000 words. Available in paperback and hardcover editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silver Sage Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798234031600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Greg Maxfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53578431398069,"sku":"9798234031600","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798234031600.jpg?v=1792609536","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-lund-covenant-9798234031600","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}