Beschreibung:
Martin Etchart received his BA and MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University before going on to earn his PhD. His novels include The Good Oak and The Last Shepherd, which won an Independent Publisher Gold Medal in the Multicultural Fiction Adult category. He is currently an English professor at Phoenix College where he teaches creative writing and literature.
In the town of Urepel, Arizona, Xabier Etxea, a young Basque-American sheep rancher, and his wife grapple with the rituals, mores, and spirituality of their heritage and the realities of living in the new American West. Their tenuous balance of the past and the present is disrupted when Xabier's father is unexpectedly killed.