That book led me to seek out Davis Wood’s earlier fiction: Blood and Bone (2014), which blends family history with the frontier sensibility of Cormac McCarthy, and Unspeakable (2016), about the aftermath of a former friend’s criminal attack on a young girl. Davis Wood’s novel is about grief, triggered by the death of the protagonist’s newborn daughter, the narrative moving around this nucleus in brilliantly constructed meditative spirals of tragedy and suffering.
Last year, Daniel Davis Wood’s At the Edge of the Solid World (2020) came to my attention after being shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Review of ‘In Ruins’ by Daniel Davis Woodĭavis Wood, Daniel.
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