Join Kansas author Robert Rebein for a presentation of his new novel The Last Rancher! Books will be available for sale and signing. 

ABOUT THE BOOK: 

In The Last Rancher, a stunning new novel by Robert Rebein, an emergency forces Leroy and Caroline Wagner’s grown children home to the Bar W Ranch. Crises converge on Dodge City: Annie stalls on her PhD, Michael interrupts his law practice, and Jimmy pillages his parents’ medicine cabinet. In memory lives the looming specter of Wade, son and brother who died too young.

The novel intimately follows a jarring collision of selves—not to mention cars, motorbikes, and a nun. In this ranching community, lives are intertwined like barbed wire, like tree roots that run under fences and buckle the ground, unearthing secrets into the blinding prairie light. I loved this book. A family drama with humor and heart, The Last Rancher gives you the prized shotgun seat and guns the gas. You’d be wise to buckle up.
-Sarah Layden, author of Imagine Your Life Like This and Trip Through Your Wires

Dodge City, Kansas, has found its bard. His name is Robert Rebein, and his debut novel, The Last Rancher, showcases an assured new voice of the contemporary American West. Prepare to be lassoed in an unforgettable and utterly satisfying family saga.”
-Will Allison, author of What You Have Left and A Long Drive Home

 Love and horses, whiskey and weed, land and money: The Last Rancher has it all. Robert Rebein has written a big-hearted literary page-turner to rival the family sagas of Richard Russo, Richard Ford, and John Irving.
-Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

With The Last Rancher, Robert Rebein has crafted a story as timeless as storytelling itself — a patriarch in decline, a family marked by loss. By rooting these elements firmly in the Dodge City of today, though, Rebein has created a narrative unique to himself and the place. Reading The Last Rancher, I came to feel that I know these people in some elemental way and, just as importantly, know what their land means to them.
-Hozy Rossi, author of Appointment with Il Duce

Rebein’s characters are so real that I would swear I know them. He seamlessly weaves together past and present to cover decades of a Kansas family broken by tragedy. I was hooked from the first page to the last.
-Cheryl Unruh, author of Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town and Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In addition to The Last Rancher, Robert Rebein the author of two award-winning books of memoir as well as a book of literary criticism. Rebein was born and raised in Dodge City, Kansas, where his family has farmed and ranched since the late 1920s. He received his BA in English from The University of Kansas, master’s degrees from Exeter University in England and Washington University in St. Louis, and his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since 1998, he has taught creative writing at Indiana University in Indianapolis (IUI), where he lives with his wife Alyssa Chase, his son Jake, and two ornery beagles, Juno and Ollie.