Hicksters

Hell yes to this exceptional collection of ferocious dispatches from an America that mostly gets flown over, talked over, stripped for parts, and then ignored until there's something to blame it for. Jake Maynard, a burgeoning master of the story form, brings ravaged lives to life with visionary precision and blood allegiance, but without condescension or pity, because he knows that attention itself is the highest form of respect a writer can pay. Hicksters is feral, foul, great-hearted, unflinching, and true
Hicksters is singular and spectacular. These are stories for our American moment, sharing an honest, gritty, and intimate view of a place and its people, their decline and resilience, pathos and pride, softness and steel core. It's an astonishing collection: entertaining, heartbreaking, down-to-earth, needle-sharp, wild, and wildly funny
Rough and tender stories-the wild kind you hear after everyone else at the party has stumbled off to sleep. Yet, just your luck, a stranger with moonlit eyes remains, confessing the poignant events of their life, crickets singing all around you in the dark