Schoolland: A Novel

Schoolland is Max Martinez's novel depicting the daily life of a Mexican-American family in rural Texas during the year of a great drought in the 1950s. Struggles with nature and society form the backdrop for the eternal tale of a child coming of age as his grandfather is waning.

"The novel is richer than the age-old tale of a child coming of age as his grandfather dies . . . the heart of this novel beats in the relationships between the members of the family, and the members of the community, and above all, in the interaction between the narrator and the grandfather".