Review

In How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang draws on elements of the Old West, but with a twist

By Mark Thomas
May 16 2020 - 12:00am
C Pam Zhang, a powerful new literary voice. Picture: Supplied
C Pam Zhang, a powerful new literary voice. Picture: Supplied

Pam Zhang begins her oddly mesmerising novel about two children adrift in the American West by inverting Woody Guthrie. Her epigraph insists, "this land is not your land".

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