'John Barron was fourteen years old. Just. Yesterday, he thought - I was fourteen yesterday and nothing changed.'
When John is asked to spend the summer alone up in the haymeadow, everything changes. Alone that is, except for the 6,000 sheep in his care, two horses, four dogs, a visiting grizzly bear and a pack of coyotes.
This is a survival story with a difference. A young man spends his fourteenth summer living through one catastrophe after another. In the process he learns all about the wilderness, human resilience, and his own lonely father.
