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Michael McGarrity profits with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times best-selling American West trilogy set in the uncooked, untrammeled New Mexico backlands during the Roaring '20s, the Great Despair, and World Conflict II. Hard Country, the first novel in the Kerney family trilogy and the debut prequel to his countrywide best-selling Kevin Kerney crime novels, was critically acclaimed for its genuine, gritty realism; its sprawling, engrossing history; and its persuasive, engaging characters. An instantaneous strike on several countrywide best retailer lists, Hard Country continues to attract an overwhelmingly positive response from critics, booksellers, and people. Backlands increases the history of Patrick Kerney; his ex-wife, Emma; and their young boy, Matthew, shortly after the tragic battlefield loss of life of these eldest boy, CJ, by the end of World Conflict I. Scarred by the increased loss of an older brother he idolized, estranged from a dad he barely recognizes, and deeply troubled by the failing health of a mom he adores, eight-year-old Matthew is all of a sudden and irrevocably obligated to set aside his youth and undertake responsibilities considerably beyond his years. If the world spirals in to the Great Despair and drought settles just like a plague over the nation, Matt must get away from his own dreams to salvage the Kerney ranch. Plunged into a deep trough of dark family secrets, concealed crimes, broken offers, and sits, Matt must struggle to make it through on the unforgiving, sun-blasted, drought-stricken Tularosa Basin. An expansive, epic story like Philipp Meyer's The Child, and in the wonderful storyteller vein of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, McGarrity's Backlands showcases his willing vision for historical information, awe-inspiring landscape, and the bitter harshness of life on the previous vestiges of the 20th-century frontier Western.
