WInner of the Willa Literary Award for Fiction. Read an Interview on Texas Book Festival: Elizabeth Crook on Her New Novel "The Which Way Tree". The story of a young girl's frightening and poignant odyssey to track down the panther that killed her mother. Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing . · Elizabeth Crook's "The Which Way Tree". Elizabeth Crook novels include The Night Journal, which received the Spur Award from Western Writers of America, and Monday, Monday, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of and winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. A very early draft of The Which Way Tree found its way to Robert Duvall and I was flabbergasted Author: Marshal Zeringue. · Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone and The Maid's Version. "In the tradition of Charles Portis's classic True Grit, Elizabeth Crook's heart-pounding adventure, The Which Way Tree, features a tough-as-nails orphan in pursuit of frontier justice you'll follow Sam to the ends of the earth."
A master storyteller, Elizabeth Crook captures the voice and character of Benjamin Shreve with her unique approach, so that days later, he is still with me. The Which Way Tree is a compelling saga that I will read again and again, like so many of her other novels. Books by author Elizabeth Crook. The Which Way Tree Published by Little, Brown and Company. A New York Times Editors' Choice "The Which Way Tree is one part Track of the Cat, one part True Grit, and one part Tom Sawyer, a ruthless pedigree for a novel that displays human nature in its most beautiful form—a marvel." —Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The Western Star. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred. Narrated in Benjamin's beguilingly plainspoken voice, The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's unshakeable resolve to stalk and kill the infamous panther, rumored across the Rio Grande to be a demon, and avenge her mother's death.
WInner of the Willa Literary Award for Fiction. Read an Interview on Texas Book Festival: Elizabeth Crook on Her New Novel "The Which Way Tree". The story of a young girl's frightening and poignant odyssey to track down the panther that killed her mother. Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther savagely attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, whose final act is to save her daughter’s life. Crook weaves tightly drawn threads as she introduces us to others who will perform exceedingly throughout the story: A Tejano outlaw with a remarkable pinto, a stalwart old minister, and a dog with the envy of every cat's nine lives. Crook is a masterful storyteller in The Which Way Tree. By Elizabeth Crook. pp. Little, Brown Company. $ Benjamin Shreve, the teenage narrator of Elizabeth Crook’s new novel, “The Which Way Tree,” unspools his tale of Civil War-era Texas.
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