Toby's Last Resort

Pamela Carter Joern is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, playwright, and teacher of writing. She is the author of The Floor of the Sky (Nebraska, 2006), In Reach (Bison Books, 2014), and The Plain Sense of Things (Nebraska, 2008).

"Just a lovely story, told with straightforward grace. Award-winning author Joern has won herself a new reader."-Micki Fuhrman, Roundup Magazine “This is a kindhearted, humorous, and graceful novel full of secrets, regrets, and redemptions. I immediately related to the drama of this beautifully drawn book about an eclectic cast of characters during a summer on the prairie and Sandhills of western Nebraska. Pamela Carter Joern writes about the Great Plains with the authority of a biologist and the passion of a poet.”-Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Godspeed “Toby’s Last Resort is both lyrical and riveting. The writing is beautiful, the plot intricate, and the characters fully developed. The setting in the Nebraska Sandhills is inspired. Joern demonstrates with every page how the lives of ordinary people, when closely examined, are always extraordinarily complex, heartbreaking, and important. I loved every aspect of this fine novel and recommend it to all.”-Mary Pipher, author of Seeking Peace and Women Rowing North “Pamela Carter Joern understands the flinty women of western Nebraska like few other writers. Toby’s Last Resort is a beautiful, funny, and wrenching story that explores the love of land accompanied by a desire for independence and privacy. I loved this novel.”-Maureen Millea Smith, author of When Charlotte Comes Home and The Enigma of Iris Murphy