Inland: A Novel

I love westerns, though I don't read nearly enough of them. This novel has two entwined storylines, both of which are classics of the genre: a homesteading family beset by hardship (draught and the menace of a powerful rancher), and a vagrant rider running from the law. I loved the way these two narratives, one stationary and the other itinerant, alternated and ultimately converged. I think I saw this book billed as magical realism, but there was only a pinch of magic, which was really the perfect amount.