{"product_id":"9780985083885","title":"Trashy Behavior","description":"In this series of linked short stories you will meet folk who inhabit the stark and wild countryside of West Texas, terrain that helps define them as well as the values that elicit many to behave in ways that will startle you. \u003cp\u003eHere are only a few of the characters you will have the privilege of meeting:\u003cbr\u003e Otto, a boy who struggles with the slippery nature of words, is captured and tortured by Comanche raiders. Riding with the Comanches is Thomas Jefferson, a black man tries to help Otto. \u003cbr\u003e Deputy Sheriff Justan Brady tries in his inept way \"to fix Danny Fowler's killing.\" \u003cbr\u003e Dee Price would willingly show you her knife scars as well as her mastectomy scars yet she is still capable of surprising you with her solution to the murder of Danny Fowler. Like many other characters in Trashy Behavior, you will meet Dee Price in more than one story. \u003cbr\u003e A young Gregory drives to a ranch to deliver a car to his boss's wife who tries to seduce him, then as he leaves, he runs into two men who blast his car with sawed-off shotguns.\u003cbr\u003e There are many other vividly-presented West Texans in the pages of this collection of stories, ones you will remember long after reading the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile these are linked stories, you can read them in any order, and all of the tales will grab your attention and keep you turning pages. \"Bankers\"-the story featuring Gregory and his trouble delivering his boss's car-won Kay Cattrulla Award for Short Fiction presented by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best story by a Texan in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lamar University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021057179888,"sku":"9780985083885","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780985083885_p0.jpg?v=1763896772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780985083885","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}