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Travis Summers and Sam Barrett are the best friends, just like their fathers before them. It's senior year, and the boys are happy and carefree, playing basketball and ranching for their families. Life is simple and good in their small town of Spanish Fort, Texas.

But when Pete Rollins, a rancher with deep pockets and dark secrets, moves to Spanish Fort and buys a large ranch, life becomes much more complicated for the boys. Pete's daughter, Angie, is beautiful and talented but has an appetite for trouble. And Pete's son, Todd, has his eye on Travis's spot on the basketball...

This magnificent summation of the short stories of Shirley Ann Grau, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Keepers of the House, gathers together eighteen gems ranking with the finest of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Grau possesses a range representing a master course in the craft of this most demanding art form. Her reader's banquet offers character sketches of Chekovian poignance and insight, a hilarious love story, excursions into the gothic and hauntingly apocalyptic, the elegiac and experimental, and stories that feel like compressed novels in their lapidary polish,...