Kaidenberg's best sons is an enthralling portrait of a community starting over in a new land. In a series of linked stories, author Jason Heit explores the lives and fortunes of people bound together by tradition, heritage and history, yet driven by envy, greed and lust. When a community of Eastern European settlers in North Dakota learn that there is a promising farmland available they load their wagons and head north. Along with their furnishing, they also pack up their resentments, desires and ambitions and bring them to a new, unsettled land. Heit deftly captures both the promise of a new start in a new land and the long shadow of the past that is cast over the characters as they rebuild their lives.