Author of historical novel What Came West Josh Weil comes to Mendocino’s Gallery Bookshop

MENDOCINO CO., 10/20/26 — Silas Hall crosses the Sierra Nevada in the 1840s on a mission to make sense of his life. He begins to find a measure of peace, but quickly the Gold Rush intrudes with its flood of driven fortune-seekers. Chaos and violence follow, and Silas commits a desperate murder that alters every life around him.

These are the bare bones of Josh Weil’s novel, What Came West, of which Tania James writes, “A feat of the imagination, as mythic as it is intimate, as tender as it is relentless… A masterpiece.”