A reunion on a ranch of three unhappily married women, who were friends in college, leads to three new romances. The women are Tanya, a rock singer whose third marriage is collapsing and who organizes the reunion; May, the wife of a high-powered New York lawyer; and Zoe, a doctor who runs an aids clinic and who has caught the disease.

In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming?s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man?s world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which...

Ranching is a life of extremes on the high plains near Laramie, Wyo. Glen Swan and her husband, Will, work on the family ranch and struggle to raise their two children. Glen befriends Meg Braeburn, who takes up ranching on the place next to the Swans. In the meantime, the prodigal Swan son returns. Relationships shift; old resentments resurface, and friendships are strained.

A historical memoir that spans the twentieth century and recapitulates the life of a daughter of Italian immigrants who came to Wyoming to make a new life. From her cabin in the Hoback Basin, Florence Rose Krall Shepard retraces the contours of her long life through the lens of the seasons that call up memories. From the landscape of childhood on a sheep ranch during the Great Depression, through schooling in a one-room school to universities, marriages...