Red Dog Farm

“Nathaniel Miller's Red Dog Farm is a gorgeous, intimate, elemental (and deadpan funny) novel that renders the bleak, unromantic, and very often unrewarding work of maintaining a small family cattle farm in Iceland. It also portrays—artfully, almost miraculously—how such grueling daily labors lay claim to the loyalty of its young protagonist, Orri, and maybe finally his family, friends, and lover if he can convince them, too, that there is at the heart of such 'grit and misery' a stark and enduring, beautiful and priceless human dignity.”

"Nathaniel Ian Miller delivers another reverent, deeply moving study of character and place in Red Dog Farm, a novel wrought with staggering truth and grace. Painted in assured prose, vivid in tenderness and humor, each movement of the story feels like a gift of humanity. You'll emerge from the folds of this remote Icelandic farm as if transported from a sacred place where love has been hard-won, purchased with sweat and honor and enormous stores of emotional truth. Red Dog Farm is a book that will change you."

“Red Dog Farm is, in one sense, about one family, one farm, a herd of cattle, and a first love. But pull back the camera to the full frame of the vast and stunning landscape of Iceland and you'll find yourself spellbound by the broadest of tales, an age-old, worldwide story of what holds us to the people and places we love, and to the ways of life that we choose. You'll care deeply about these people. You'll even care deeply about their cows.”

“A cold-winded, gorgeous gust of a book, Red Dog Farm solidifies Nathaniel Ian Miller as one of my favorite writers around. At once raw and exquisite, the book examines the endless complexities of family, the line between contentment and longing, and what happens when you pull a thread of history only to find your future. Its rural Icelandic setting, as wildly beautiful as it is severe, is the perfect framework for a story whose characters simmer with love, even as they struggle to show it. Like any dormant volcano, it’s only a matter of time. This is a book to cherish.”