PRAISE FOR BUFFALO FOR THE BROKEN HEART

“One prime virtue of Buffalo for the Broken Heart is its lean prose, a style suited to the taut landscape of the Dakotas. . . . [O’Brien’s] book is a deft report to readers interested in preservation in the largest sense of the idea—which is to say conservation, resurrection, restoration, protection, and celebration.”

—Preservation

“Sometimes it seems that the land doesn’t want us anymore after all we’ve done to it. O’Brien and his buffalo-raising friends, pioneers for the new future . . . may win a place in that ecosystem by not trying to wrestle top dollar from it.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Beautifully written. . . . With vivid prose, a flair for the dramatic and a great tale to tell, O’Brien has written a narrative that is at once a nature book, a memoir and a meditation on man’s place in the ecosystem.”

—Bookpage

“Artful, lucid, down-to-earth, poetic, and entertaining, Buffalo for the Broken Heart is a tale told with uncommon gentleness, decency, and discretion, much humor, and real wisdom. There is enough sorrow to break your heart, and enough joy to mend it again. A classic.”

—JOHN NICHOLS, author of The Milagro Beanfield War

“I love this book. Buffalo for the Broken Heart is elegant, visionary, physically acute, and lives intensely with grace and power. A blue-print for dreams and dreamers.”

—RICK BASS, author of Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had and Where the Sea Used to Be

“As a chronicle of life in a lonely and difficult place, O’Brien’s story is timeless—and entirely welcome.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Engaging. . . . A moving story of one man’s love for a place and his desire to ‘make the land whole again.’ ”

—Publishers Weekly

“This book is a phoenix, a thing of beauty rising from the ashes of loss. Dan O’Brien tells us important things about the world we live in, and what it means to risk doing the right thing.”

—KATHLEEN NORRIS, author of The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace

“Dan O’Brien’s Buffalo for the Broken Heart at first appears to be an agrarian fable on the high order of James Galvin’s The Meadow. But then O’Brien picks up the energy, and his urgent, desperate attempts to save his ranch explode on the page.”

—JIM HARRISON, author of Legends of the Fall