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American West
Author_Kate Anger
Based on True Events
Category=FV
Coming of Age
Creative Writing
Debt
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Family Farm
Frontier Justice
historical fiction
Historical Western fiction
Honor Killing
Literature
Pregnancy
Prostitute
Rayner
Sex Work
Sisterhood
Texas
Texas fiction
Western Fiction
Women in Fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781496231383
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2022
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Seventeen-year-old Jessa Campbell thrives on the Shinnery, her family’s homestead in 1890s Texas, bordered by acres of shin oaks on the rolling plains. Without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt. A better judge of cattle than of men, Jessa becomes entangled with a bad one. Everything unravels after she puts her trust in Will Keyes. When Jessa returns home to the Shinnery, pregnant and alone, her father goes on a mission of frontier justice, with devastating consequences. In the aftermath Jessa fights for her claim to the family farm and for a life of independence for herself and her sisters. A story of coming-of-age, betrayal, and revenge, The Shinnery is inspired by the author’s family history and a trial that shook the region.
Seventeen-year-old Jessa Campbell thrives on the Shinnery, her family’s homestead in 1890s Texas, bordered by acres of shin oaks on the rolling plains. Without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt. A better judge of cattle than of men, Jessa becomes entangled with a bad one. Everything unravels after she puts her trust in Will Keyes. When Jessa returns home to the Shinnery, pregnant and alone, her father goes on a mission of frontier justice, with devastating consequences. In the aftermath Jessa fights for her claim to the family farm and for a life of independence for herself and her sisters. A story of coming-of-age, betrayal, and revenge, The Shinnery is inspired by the author’s family history and a trial that shook the region.
Kate Anger is a playwright and a lecturer at the University of California–Riverside.
