Shadows of Pecan Hollow: A Novel
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Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
"This immersive, full-bodied novel will keep its hooks in you long after the last page is read, and marks the arrival of a tremendously wise and talented writer."—Ben Fountain
Set in 1970-90s Texas, a mesmerizing story about a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she can’t escape, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Valentine.
It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome.
Twenty years after they meet, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees and muddy creeks of the town of Pecan Hollow, far from Manny. But when he shows up at her doorstep a new man, fresh out of prison, Kit is forced to reckon with the shadows of her past.
A gritty, penetrating, and unexpectedly tender novel, Shadows of Pecan Hollow is a hauntingly intimate and distinctly original debut about the complexity of love—both romantic and familial—and the bonds that define us.
“Paper Moon meets Badlands in this mesmerizing Texas backroads thriller, a twisty story of a runaway girl who finds a home and a desperate love on the road with an opportunistic criminal.”—Janet Fitch
Caroline Frost
Caroline Frost has a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Southern California. She is the author of Shadows of Pecan Hollow, which won the Crook’s Corner Prize, was a finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She currently resides in Pasadena, California, with her husband and three small children, but her roots in Texas run deep.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oh, my, the resilience of some people. Kit was abandoned by her mother soon after her birth and Kit spent her childhood in the foster system. When she ran a way from an abusive home life, she is caught trying to steal a takeout bag from a car and she becomes an accomplice of the car’s owner as they rob gas stations. When Manny is arrested at the scene of a bungled burglary, Kit flees. She sets out to look for a great aunt, who accepts her as a daughter and is thrilled Kit is having a baby. But Kit and her daughter, Charlie, have a rough relationship because Kit has such a tough personality, and she doesn’t know how to parent. Pecan Hollow, where Aunt Eleanor lives, is a small east Texas town filled with the usual array of small-town citizen, quick to criticize but also quick to help. When Manny shows up and finds he has a daughter, things become dangerous for Kit and Charlie. At the end, I was so proud of the two who not only had discovered a real mother-daughter relationship but had found a real home in Pecan Hollow.