Recommended by The Washington Post! ?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...told in a gritty sensual prose.??Janet Fitch #1 New
York Times bestselling author of White Oleander Set in 1970-90s Texas a mesmerizing story
about a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she can't escape perfect for readers of Where
the Crawdads Sing and Valentine. It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was
abducted by Manny Romero a smooth-talking low-level criminal who first coddled her and then
groomed her into his partner-in-crime. 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. A gritty penetrating and unexpectedly tender novel Shadows of
Pecan Hollow is a hauntingly intimate and distinctly original debut about the complexity of
love?both romantic and familial?and the bonds that define us.
