This week on ‘The Write Question,’ Lauren speaks with Healy, Alaska-based writer Christine Byl about her debut novel, ‘Lookout’ (Deep Vellum Publishing), which tells the story of the Kinzlers, a complex working-class family firmly rooted in northwestern Montana.

Christine Byl’s debut novel ‘Lookout’ centers community, resists western stereotypes

The Write Question is a weekly literary program hosted by Lauren Korn that features authors from the American West—and beyond—including James Lee Burke, Kate Lebo, Anne Helen Petersen, Robert Wrigley, Jess Walter, Stephen Graham Jones, Hoa Nguyen, Maggie Shipstead, Elissa Washuta, and others.

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Christine Byl’s debut novel ‘Lookout’ centers community, resists western stereotypes

Christine Byl’s debut novel ‘Lookout’ centers community, resists western stereotypes

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