| Article: | Set in Montana, coming-of-age story's critical feature is land If you want to write a novel set in the past, I have a primer for you. Ivan Doig's novel of life in Montana in 1939, “English Creek,” is a carefully crafted bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story of Jick McCaskill, 14, son of a forest ranger in north-northwest Montana, near Glacier National Park. |