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"A mesmerizing, mythic saga" of a Texas family damaged by a dark past, and a son driven by a need for redemption ( The New York Times Book Review ). On a moonless Texas night in 1895, an ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of his wife-"the only woman he's ever been fo...

From the author of The Wake of Forgiveness - "a mesmerizing, mythic saga"*-ten remarkable stories that tackle what it means to be a man Whether they find themselves walking the fertile farmland of south Texas, steering trucks through the suffocating sprawl of Houston, or turning...

Machart pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales. The characters in Machart's affecting fiction find themselves attempting to measure up to their own beliefs in what it means to be a man, even as they struggle and often fail to be good providers, to protect ...

In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth. Fifteen years later, guilt-stricken Karel puts his family's fortunes on the line in a horse race against a powerful Spanish patriarch.