![]() ![]() Lurie Mattie, an immigrant Muslim from a Balkan piece of the Ottoman Empire, is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. Nora, affected by her loneliness and isolation, speaks to her long-dead daughter, Evelyn, who died of heat stroke in Arizona as a baby. She also lives with Emmett's mother, Missus Harriet, as well as Emmett's cousin, Josie, a clairvoyant who hosts séances to communicate with the dead. Nora lives with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land surrounding their home. ![]() Nora's husband, Emmett, left in search of water for the household and their two elder sons left following an explosive argument. Living in the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, 37-year-old frontierswoman Nora Lark waits inside her home for the return of the men in her life. ![]() The novel follows two parallel narratives in the American frontier. The book was published by Random House on August 13, 2019, eight years after Obreht's 2011 debut novel, The Tiger's Wife. Inland is the second novel by the Serbian-American author Téa Obreht. ![]()
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