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Moving to Persimmon, New Mexico, with her unconventional mother, a teenage Rita finds her life taking unexpected turns when she enters the local high school, acquires a boyfriend, and becomes involved in the revenge scheme of Rudy Salazar, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

In his most extraordinary novel yet, the author of the acclaimed Mystery Ride and Crooked Hearts casts an expert net around a group of disparate people--in the form of the powder keg community he invents for them to live in--and pulls it tighter and tighter, eliciting unforgettable behavior from them all. 352 pp. Author tour. 20,000 print.