“The robin’s-egg blue kitchen looks out on the brown grass of the empty plains. The gas stove lurches away from the wall, and in the yard the white bones of a deer bleach in the sun.”
An interweaving of the spare, lyrical writing of the late, great Charles Bowden and photographs by Eugene Richards, New World speaks of the exploration of the Great Plains, immigrant history, the Great Depression, the somber beauty of the land, and the ongoing erasure of ways of life.
New World is a timely book, that while recounting travels across the expanse of North Dakota, interweaves visions of the earliest inhabitants, warfare, poverty, the wind, the cold, the loneliness, silence, love and fear.