The calm stability of Carrie Bell's life in Wisconsin is shattered when her fiance is paralyzed in an accident. A morally complex novel about the desire to live fully and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves.
In 1873, Alfred Packer led twenty-one men from Utah to the gold fields of Colorado. Three months later, he returned alone. To this day, no one but Packer knows what really happened on that fateful expedition. Lone Survivor brilliantly recreates -- from Packer's unique point of vi...