Bucking the Sun

Bucking the Sun is a novel by American author Ivan Doig, published in 1996.

It is the fourth book in Doig's Two Medicine Country series.

[2] The Duff family are homesteaders who move from their alfalfa farm to work on the Fort Peck Dam, a New Deal project.

[3] Timothy Foote of the New York Times described the novel as "a neat, excruciating Agatha Christie country-house murder set down in sprawling Montana.

Doig's real achievement is to chronicle—with empathy and precise, lyrical authority, down to the last load of gravel hauled in a sturdy Ford truck—the magnificent Fort Peck project and the desperate times out of which it arose.