Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County Colorado Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary empathy Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone In the same town school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant & homeless Whilst Tom's sons find their way forward without their mother quiet & gentle Harold & Raymond Mc Pheron agree to take Victoria in unaware that their lives are about to change forever A novel of haunting beauty from one of America's greatest writers of our time Plainsong explores the grace & hope of every human life & mankind's infinite capacity for love