**"This is prime American fictiontough, generous, and openeyed."
ALYSON HAGY, author of Boleto
"Maynard's debut collection bursts with idiosyncratic characterspacks a strong emotional punch." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Convicts round up wild mustangs, a schizophrenic homeless man wins the jackpot and disappears,** a truck driver with a child's mind spends his last hours in the embrace of a prostitute's photos. Disparate and vivid, Mark Maynard's characters intersect in the new wild west of Reno, Nevada.