Rilla Askew, Author University of Oklahoma Press $24.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3823-7
Set in Depression-era Oklahoma and drawing inevitable comparison to The Grapes of Wrath, Askew's novel presents the best and worst of humanity in its depiction of hardscrabble lives lived during the Dust Bowl. Sharon Thompson is only 14 when...
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Rilla Askew, Author Viking Books $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-87467-5
Among the many triumphs of this story of thick and bad blood, none surpasses its depiction of time and place: Oklahoma in the late 1800s, a gritty epoch of guns, whiskey and horses. But this is no mere western shoot-'em-up. Told most often in the...
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Rilla Askew, Author Viking Books $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-88843-6
In an arresting examination of race and heritage, Askew (The Mercy Seat) mixes historical fact with compelling fiction. From the ominous opening scene to the race-segregated society of 1920s Tulsa, Okla., the reader is carried along on a journey of...
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Rilla Askew. Ecco, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-219879-2
This compelling, deliberate novel from Askew (The Mercy Seat), told from a rotation of voices and perspectives, delves into the lives of an Oklahoma family and community in the aftermath of new immigration legislation. Sweet Kirkendall is a...
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Rilla Askew, Author, Rilla Askey, Author Viking Books $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-84259-9
The regional voices in these 11 interrelated, canny stories are protean and riveting as they record the ``strange business'' of death and the fleetingness of life in the fictional town of Cedar, Okla. Opening with Native American recollections of...
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