CALLAN WINK. Dog Run Moon. Dial. Hardcover, 256 pages, $26, PenguinRandomHouse.com.
Michigan-born Callan Wink, a fly-fishing guide and short-story writer in Livingston, Montana, has put together an impressive debut collection of contemporary stories set mostly in Wyoming and Montana. He writes of a Custer re-enactor who has a long affair with an Indian woman, of a father and son lost on the Crow reservation on a fishing trip and of a construction worker on the run with a dog he has stolen. The nine stories are told with humor and a keen understanding of the human psyche. They are perhaps not for all tastes, but fans of Annie Proulx and Sherman Alexie will likely be more than satisfied.
Published in Roundup Magazine, April 2017, in Fiction Book Reviews, Western Writers of America, www.WesternWriters.org