Winner of the 2019 Booklife Prize by Publishers Weekly.
Construction of the nation's massive Interstate Highway System is underway, tearing north through the Connecticut River Valley. In its path sits the Vermont hill farm that Roland Tuttle's ancestors settled generations ago, where Roland has spent his entire lifecaring for his animals, plowing with horses, harvesting by hand. Exit 8 tells Roland's place in the Tuttle family's history. It is a story of personal choice, nature's dark beauty, and the unremarked costs of progress, but most of all it is the story of Roland Tuttle, a man confronted with the loss of the only world he knows and loves.