"These are wonderful stories--passionate, fierce, reckless, and scrupulously written... Sandlin's characters are flawed and broken people, but their stories are not a lament. They're about the power to create beauty and healing from loneliness and pa...
"A wonderful addition to the literature of the Southwest." -Rudolfo Anaya
"Canterbury comes to Chimayo. Sandlin lays claim to a part of the world so infused with beauty it startles people awake, a world where miracles still happen, where the divin...
1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she s out. It s 1973, and nobody s rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial ...
Winner of the 2015 Dashiell Hammett Prize and 2016 Shamus Award
1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she’s out. It’s 1973, and nobodyâ€...
NOMINEE―EDGAR AWARDS "BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK" Best Crime Novels of the Year, New York Times
Starred review from Publishers Weekly
Starred review from Kirkus Reviews
Starred review from Booklist
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This life-affirming novel follows a fifty-seven-year-old woman forced to rebuild her life, unexpectedly and alone, in 1960s Texas -- telling a "wonderfully wise and compassionate story of the extraordinary courage it takes to live a seemingly or...