Shadows of Pecan Hollow (eBook)

Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize"e;This 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."e;Ben FountainSet in 1970-90s Texas,a mesmerizing story about a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she cant escape, perfect for readers ofWhere the Crawdads SingandValentine.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 Hollowis a hauntingly intimate and distinctly original debut about the complexity of loveboth romantic and familialand 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