GrindPaperback, 18 December 2012

This is prime American fiction--tough, generous, and open-eyed.
--ALYSON HAGY, author of Boleto

Maynard's debut collection bursts with idiosyncratic characters...packs a strong emotional punch.
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Convicts round up wild mustangs, a schizophrenic homeless man wins the jackpot and disappears, a truck driver with a child's mind spends his last hours in the embrace of a prostitute's photos. Disparate and vivid, Mark Maynard's characters intersect in the new wild west of Reno, Nevada.