Train Dreams

The novella follows the life of Robert Grainier, an orphan sent to Idaho in 1893.

Grainier works as a laborer, building bridges and felling trees for the expanding railways.

He finds happiness with his wife and daughter but faces tragedy when a wildfire changes his life forever.

The story is a reflection on isolation, the closing of the American West, and the simple yet harsh life of a pioneer.

It juxtaposes the sounds of trains with the natural world, creating a dream-like and elegiac portrait of Grainier's life.