Callan Wink in conversation with Jonathan Klein

Country Bookshelf is excited to celebrate the release of Beartooth on February 13 at 6:00pm.

Tickets are not required for this event, but RSVPs are appreciated. Please get a FREE general admission ticket by selecting "Get tickets" on this page.

Books can be purchased at the event or ordered in advance through Eventbrite, ordering , or by calling Country Bookshelf at 406-587-0166 during our regular business hours.

The event at a glance:

• On February 13, please arrive early to secure your seat. Seating is general admission first come, first serve.
• At 6:00pm, the event program featuring Callan Wink and Jonathan Klein will begin. The pair will take audience questions following their program.
• After the talk, Call and Jonathan will be available for book signing.
• Can't attend in person? on our website or by calling 406-587-0166. Signing requests will need to be placed 24 hours before the event.
• Beartooth will be published on February 11. People who purchase a copy of the book before the publication date are placing a preorder for the book. The book will not be available to customers until the publication date. Customers can pick up their books on the publication date or they are welcome to pick up their books on the night of the event.

About Beartooth:
Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Peter Heller and Donald Ray Pollock.

In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are struggling to keep up with their debts. They live off the grid, on the fringe of Yellowstone, surviving off the wild after the death of their father. Thad, the elder, is more capable of engaging with things like the truck registration, or the medical bills they can't afford from their father's fatal illness, or the tax lien on the cabin their grandfather built, while Hazen is . . . different, more instinctual, deeply in tune with the natural world. Desperate for money, they are approached by a shadowy out-of-towner with a dangerous proposition that will change both of their lives forever. Beartooth is a fast-paced tale with moments of surprising poignancy set in the grandeur of the American West. Evoking the timeless voices of American pastoral storytelling, this is a bracing, masterful novel about survival, revenge, and the bond between brothers.

Callan Wink has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, Playboy, Men’s Journal, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the author of a novel, August, and a collection of short stories, Dog Run Moon. He lives in Livingston, Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River.

Jonathan Klein was not born in the right place. Raised in San Francisco by a single mother determined to mold her only child into a sophisticated urbanite, he instead surrendered to an innate ferality. Moving to Montana as a young man, Jonathan found work as a ranch hand and later discovered his true calling as a wilderness manager for the USDA Forest Service. His adventurous spirit has led to a slew of dubious exploits including hopping freight trains, a very short stint as a rodeo rider, bull fighting in Portugal, and several expeditions by canoe and kayak to the far north. Jonathan lives in Montana with his wife, Marianne, and a couple of cats.

Accessibility Information:

• The event will take place on the first floor of Country Bookshelf.
• All doorways have a width greater than 32 inches with the narrowest being our front door at 35 inches.
• The speakers will be using a microphone at this event.
• Please email [email protected] if you have any specific accessibility needs and we will do our best to serve you!
• Do you or someone you know provide ASL interpretation? Country Bookshelf is seeking an interpreter to call on for future events. Please send information to [email protected] if there is interest!

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