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 and the long comets tail of their story. A notable debut drenched in regional detail and told in a gritty sensual prose.Janet Fitch 1 New York Times bestselling author of White Oleander Set in Texas in the 1970s and 90s Shadows of Pecan Hollow is a literary debut about a fierce woman and the partnerincrime she cant escape perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Valentine. It was 1970 when thirteenyearold runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero a smoothtalking lowlevel criminal who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partnerincrime. 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 and her community is sent into a tailspin. This gritty penetrating and unexpectedly tender novel ensnares the reader in its story of resilience and bonds that define us. With its rich rural landscape indelible characters and striking regional language Shadows of Pecan Hollow is a hauntingly intimate and distinctly original debut about the complexity of loveboth romantic and familialand the strength and vulnerability of womanhood. show more