Queer Lane Book Club

You can order Lookout from Bookshop.org,
directly from Deep Vellum/A Strange Object, in addition to Amazon. Best of all, ask your local bookstore to order you a copy. Ask your library to carry it. Thank you for supporting independent booksellers whenever possible!

Christine Byl's debut novel, Lookout, about a close-knit and complicated rural family in Western Montana, spans the latter half of the 20th century & the beginning of the next. Lookout retools the mythic American west to encompass the social and emotional pressures that underlie a family's
life on the land.

For more information, to order, and to read reviews, please visit Lookout.

Byl’s gift to readers is refusal of stereotype and received language about a place often and easily stereotyped. In the absence of labels for what we think we ought to know about place and people, Byl allows a world of nuance to come to life.
--Jessica Johnson, Terrain.org

“The sense of community, family, and buried secrets at its heart is almost tactile in its presence. A deeply felt, unconventionally told family story.”
-Kirkus Reviews

"Byl's slow-burning and poignant debut novel follows a Montana family across decades (and) gently excavates (a) complicated interior life. Readers will find much to savor."
--Publishers Weekly