Sandy and Wayne - by Steve Yates (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Set in the Ozarks, the story of two lost hearts, harbored ambitions, and forbidden possibilities<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The last thing Sandy Coker needs is love. In the 1990s, she's one of very few women tapped by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department to be a lead inspector in the lonesome, cutthroat world of heavy construction. Contractors she minds are transforming the rugged Ozarks and driving new interstate through mountains, treacherous and wild. She holds the key to millions of dollars in compensation for work that can cost not only livelihoods but lives. When she meets dirt foreman Wayne Sheridan of Missouri, stars collide and, for both of them, the timing could not be worse. With prose that evokes the sweeping landscape of the Ozarks and the simple beauty of a country music song, <em>Sandy and Wayne</em> is the story of two lost hearts, clashing ambitions, and possibilities that seem forbidden. </p><p><br></p><p>Chosen by <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling author Lauren Groff for the inaugural Knickerbocker Prize and honored by novelist Lisa Zeidner as a finalist for the Faulkner / Wisdom Prize, <em>Sandy and Wayne: A Novella</em> was originally edited by Heather Jacobs and published in the letter-press journal <em>Big Fiction</em>. It was later published again as a standalone book by Dock Street Press in Seattle.</p><p> </p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<em>Sandy and Wayne</em> is tremendous, a taut, tense, magisterial work that has all the concision and sharpness of a great short story, all of the texture and detail of an engrossing novel. The novella is, in my opinion, the hardest fictional form to get right; Steve Yates has proven his mastery of this most gorgeous form."-<strong>Lauren Groff</strong>, <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling author of <em>Florida</em> and <em>Fates and Furies</em></p><p> </p><p>"It's hard to imagine a less likely setting for a love story than on a dusty Arkansas road construction crew. But this author makes it work. <em>Sandy and Wayne</em> are as tough and hard-nosed as they come, so their romance is touching without ever being sentimental. Yates makes great use of his insider's knowledge of this setting. In a way, the landscape itself is the star of this story-sometimes lush, sometimes severe and threatening."-<strong>Lisa Zeidner</strong>, author of five novels, most recently <em>Love Bomb</em></p><p> </p><p>"A love story with soul, without sap, <em>Sandy and Wayne</em> is bursting with big-hearted wisdom and an admirable empathy for its characters and setting. Call it a novella; call it a short novel; call it a long short story-it doesn't really matter. Just be sure to call it what it is: a stunning achievement by a writer at the peak of his powers."-<strong>Andrew Roe</strong>, author of <em>The Miracle Girl</em></p><p> </p><p>"Having proven himself a master of the novel and the short story, Steve Yates has set his sights on the novella. And lucky for us, his readers, that he has. <em>Sandy and Wayne</em> is a burst of adrenaline. At one point, as Sandy and Wayne attempt to save a man's life, Sandy finds herself gripping Wayne's shoulder, waiting to see if the man will open his eyes. <em>Sandy and Wayne</em> will grip you just that way. And won't let go. And your eyes will be opened."-<strong>David James Poissant</strong>, author of <em>Lake Life</em> and <em>The Heaven of Animals</em></p><p> </p><p>"What a rare thing: a book that's as compelling and complex a story about work as it is about love (and it's a pretty great love story)."-<strong>Tom Nissley</strong>, author of <em>A Reader's Book of Days</em></p><p><br></p><p>"<em>Sandy and Wayne</em> is a gripping, white-hot novella about unlikely heroes, marginal but crucial characters who build the roads to where we want to go. They are like 'them people' in the Bible who are never named, and these two just happen to fall in love despite themselves. Steve Yates takes on unusual, fresh material here-the rough lonely jobs of highway workers who gather in dark pool halls at the end of dusty days to drink and imagine a better life. There is the muscular language of hard highway work, the everyday violence of living in the Ozarks, and the landscape filled with cigarette smoke, Peterbilts, Caterpillar earthmovers, and decaying motor lodges."-<strong>Margaret McMullan</strong>, <em>Clarion Ledger</em> / <em>Hattiesburg</em> <em>American</em> Mississippi Books Page</p><br>
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