SHADOWS OF PECAN HOLLOW

Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize finalist for the Golden Poppy Award and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeThis immersive full-bodied novel will keep its hooks in you long after the last page is read and marks the arrival of a tremendously wise and talented writer.—Ben FountainSet in 1970-90s Texas a mesmerizing story about a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she can’t escape perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Valentine.It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero a smooth-talking low-level criminal who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome.Twenty years after they meet Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees and muddy creeks of the town of Pecan Hollow far from Manny. But when he shows up at her doorstep a new man fresh out of prison Kit is forced to reckon with the shadows of her past. A gritty penetrating and unexpectedly tender novel Shadows of Pecan Hollow is a hauntingly intimate and distinctly original debut about the complexity of love—both romantic and familial—and the bonds that define us. “Paper Moon meets Badlands in this mesmerizing Texas backroads thriller a twisty story of a runaway girl who finds a home and a desperate love on the road with an opportunistic criminal.”—Janet Fitch.