Nugae: Being Selections from Many Years’ Scribblings in Verse (1892)

A Los Angeles cop reluctantly attends a deer hunting trip in New Mexico with his elderly father and four brothers, all the while struggling with a tragedy that has driven him to near self-destruction. To save his son, the father reveals his own secret while the others remain in the dark. Best Story, inspired by an actual hunting trip that the author took with his father and brothers in 1995, grabs you from the start and embraces you until the final passage.