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Between the Far Horizon and Goodbye
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Sacramento Valley, 1922. William Lafferty drives the back roads for his family's produce house, a decent, careful young man who has never had to decide anything hard. Then he meets Kiku Sato.
Kiku holds her family's farm in her own name, because the law of California forbids her immigrant parents to own the land they built. She is precise, certain, wholly herself, and William finds himself returning to her rows for reasons he will not examine. What grows between them is real. So is the pressure tightening around her family: the water boards, the boycotts, the survey stakes appearing at the property line, the quiet machinery of men who do not think of themselves as cruel.
All he has to do is stand beside her in the daylight. All he has to do is say one word.
He cannot.
Between the Far Horizon and Goodbye is a love story about the choice never made, and a portrait of how an ordinary, decent man becomes part of an injustice simply by declining to oppose it. Thirty years later, on a crowded platform, William will see her one last time, and understand, at last, what his silence built.
A spare, devastating novel of longing and quiet reckoning, for readers of literary historical fiction about love, loss, and the cost of looking away.
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