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"Irene gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's...
5) Glory Days
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Down-on-his-luck rancher Teensy and his daughter Luann face the loss of their Nebraska ranch as they mourn the death of Luann's mother. When an amusement park is built in their small town, an invading culture fully severs the attachment to the land. Ghosts and seers, drugs and greed, the haves and have-nots all navigate the painful transition to the twenty-first-century in this gritty and somehow magical portrait of rural America.
6) Deer season
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"Over a weekend a teenage girl goes missing. Hal, a mentally challenged farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of"--
7) Dog on fire
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"Driving through a blinding dust storm in the rural Plains, Dog on Fire's narrator sees her brother standing on the side of the road holding a shovel. She knows she should stop. The dust swirling around her prevents her from seeing more than a few feet in front of her, but even if she does stop for her brother, he will not be there. He is already dead. In Dog on Fire, the people in a small farm town try to come to terms with family turmoil, past loves,...
8) Godfall
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"A three-mile-long humanoid alien has crashed into Earth in western Nebraska. Seemingly dead, the extraterrestrial lies in a field just outside of the small, quiet town of Little Springs. The man forced to keep order in this chaos is a small-town sheriff whose job becomes far bigger than that, especially when a series of brutal murders begins"--
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