<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "Enemy Women" comes an eagerly anticipated, stirring work of fiction set against the dark days of the Great Depression.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls--responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea--know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. But in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable accident leaves the girls and their mother, Elizabeth, alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times.</p><p>Returning to their previously abandoned family farm, the resilient Stoddard women must now place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up what little they have left . . . and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A] stirring story . . . of self and home in language as spare and stark as the Texas landscape."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"Jiles's eloquent, engaging novel celebrates four strong women toughing out the Great Depression . . . [a] gritty saga."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"Jiles's follow-up to her highly praised debut, Enemy Women, [is] a deeply satisfying novel with wide appeal."--Library Journal (starred review)<br>
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