**A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this debut novel chronicles the
life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine.
**Eastern Oklahoma, 1928.
Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive
brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the US Government to
the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood.
Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often
marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined
practicality. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a
newcomer with good looks and books rides down her section line, she
takes notice. Soon she finds herself facing a series of high-stakes
decisions that will determine her future and those of her loved ones.
Maud's Line is accessible, sensuous, and vivid. It will sit on the
bookshelf alongside novels by Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Sherman
Alexie, and other beloved chroniclers of the American West and its
people.