The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

I read The Power of the Dog with rapture. Strangely, I feel as if I'd just read the best novel I will be reading for 2026. The story made me tense; Phil and George Burbank, brothers who lived in a cattle ranch in Montana, are characters who are deeply human and therefore extremely complex (my apologies for the diarrhea of hyperbolic adverbs: this novel is marvelously, amazingly wonderful). There's something about Thomas Savage's language that makes me want to write.  

A backstory: I picked this up at National Bookstore's bin of books that cost less than 200 pesos. That place at SM Gensan hosts many wonders. I got my copies of Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy—great books I would reread—from those discounted bins.