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"What I'm about to tell took place near the little town of Alpine, Texas, when I was fresh out of the service and had some money in my pockets. . . . The thing that happened shouldn't have happened and I wish it never did. But there's no denying it and in a way I've been on the lam because of it ever since." So begins the title story of "In an Arid Land," a collection that depicts episodes in the lives of ordinary people facing real problems. Testament to the challenges of everyday life, the stories often revolve around tragic turning points--the loss of a loved one, divorce, retirement, or...

This House of Women opens in the small East Texas town of Karankawa. The year is 1942, and the United States has just entered World War II. Pregnant and alone, nineteen-year-old Hannah Hayward arrives in Karankawa in search of a better life. As her dreams and desires change, Hannah journeys from East Texas to the Big Bend region of far West Texas with her children, transforming houses and lives through her loving labor.In a richly layered novel that is both historical and genealogical, This House of Women follows Hannah and her family across the decades: through the postwar plenty of the...

Paul Scott Malone's first volume of stories, "In an Arid Land," won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for the best book of fiction for 1995. His second book of stories raises his award-winning standard. "Memorial Day and Other Stories" has a cast of characters not easily forgotten; they are damaged young men struggling with a hostile world--or at least a world they don't always understand. Malone's major theme is the angst of modern man. Even the women characters--and they are never the protagonists--suffer from one sort of anxiety or another.
In the title story, William, the narrator,...