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I enjoyed Percival Everett's latest novel, Trees, so much I decided to read all of his books. I had somehow gotten the idea that this author was too...what? Brainy, deep? Well, he is all that but he sure knows how to give the reader a good time!

Walk Me to the Distance is actually his second novel. It is a wonderful study of the disillusioned Vietnam vet and a deep dive into the Wild West that still existed on the plains of Wyoming in 1970s America.

Rough, with its own codes of behavior. Vast with its big sky. I met characters I will never forget: David, the veteran; Sixbury, a one-legged, widow-lady sheep rancher; and a little Vietnamese war orphan who gets dropped into the vet's lap.

From that point on it gets more complicated every day as the frontier code comes up against a changing world. The novel was the perfect follow-up to the last book I read, Ennemonde.

Walking to the distance is a saying that means walking as far as one can see across the plains.