Rilla Askew

• Jul-1992
• / General Fiction
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The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town

Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp―and regrets it on their awkward first date. After years of being na...

• Aug-1997
• / General Fiction
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A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDAn epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalryFayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a ...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families �" one white, one Black �" whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race MassacreOil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop fo...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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A love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn’t leave for California

Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his ch...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing family man and respected community member, is caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers...

• Oct-2022
• / Historical
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Lincolnshire, 1537. Amid England’s religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated gentleman’s daughter is determined to free herself from he...

• Sep-2024
• / General Fiction
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From the author of The Mercy Seat and Fire in Beulah comes a new collection of six stories troubled by ghosts that linger in our present moment. Set primarily in eastern Oklahoma during the 1970s, The Hungry and the Haunted is Rilla Askew’s tes...