Product Description: This novel explores the underbelly of the almost always politically incorrect world of politics and campaigning in Texas in the 1980s. Rose Marie “Red” Ryder made a name for herself by becoming the first female state comptroller of Texas and she is now running to become the first woman U...read more

Product Description: Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of other writers—some internationally recognized, others just becoming known—who draw inspiration and often subject matter from the unique places and people that are Texas...read more

Through poignant vignettes, a Texas woman traces her relationship with her mother, whose guardian she became at sixteen when her mother was diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and recounts her struggle to care for her. Reprint. K. PW.