From the acclaimed author of Sorrow Floats, Social Blunders, and Skipped Parts, comes a wickedly funny novel about love, marriage, and life. When Loren Paul spends too much time contemplating the meaning of life, his gorgeous, headstrong wife Lana Sue drives South to meet some cowboys. While Lana...
I sometimes like to browse the Free Fridays giveaways on the Nook blog. I’ve read a few of the offered books and was surprisingly pleased at how much I enjoyed them, so when I was looking for something to read next, I figured I would give this one a try. In the reviews, many people said it was a ...
I didn't realize this was the final novel of a trilogy until I was already fifty pages into it. I suppose I could have set the novel down and attempted to find the first two, but I was having too much fun being led unexpectedly through the dysfunctional world of Sam Callahan. Sam is a thirty some...
Able storytelling and an engaging cast of dysfunctional modern American pilgrims animate this winning tale of the road. When tipsy, 23-year-old Maurey Pierce Talbot accidentally drives through her Wyoming town with her baby on the roof of her car, she realizes just how far she has sunk since her ...
I lay in bed, staring at the dark corner of the room where three lines from the walls and ceiling came together. The siren wailed up and down a minute or so, then came silence except for a pickup truck speeding up Center toward the volunteer fire building. One pumper truck siren kicked in and hea...
Beside her, on the blanket, she had arranged a pair of Bausch & Lomb binoculars, a Peterson’s Field Guide to Western Birds, and a silver thermos of black coffee. She spoke slowly, scanning a marshy pond at the bottom of the slope. “Cinnamon teal, a ring-necked, a coupl...
