Valentine
poems

Hey there, Valentine. His soft drawl marked him as not from here, but not that far away either, and his words took the ugly right out of the parking lot. Her mouth went dry as a stick of chalk. She had been standing next to the lone picnic table parked in the center of the drive-in, a shaky woode......more

A hauntingly powerful, and beautiful debut ! This is a longer than usual review, but I just had to be sure I could do it justice. Odessa Texas in 1976, and believe me when I say I felt as if I was there. The brown dry land and the beautiful purple sky on the cover are portrayed in beautiful prose. T......more

Odessa, Texas. It’s 1976 and a young fourteen-year-old Mexican girl, Gloria, is beaten and raped by a white oilfield worker. She shows up on Mary Grace’s porch, bloodied and battered. This attack divides the town and pits neighbor against neighbor. Readers learn what happens next through the eyes of......more