Train Dreams is a 2011 novella by Denis Johnson about the life of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the turn of the 20th century. The book is an "epic in miniature" that follows Grainier's life, marked by personal loss and the radical changes transforming America. It is a work of historical fiction that captures the disappearance of a specific American way of life through spare, powerful prose.
