Rightful Place

2012 Willa Award Winner

From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Hale has lived the cowboy life--as  wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westerness of the people and animals around her: the son who must get back on the horse, the husband who gives great gifts, the horses whose names and temperaments are as recognizable as family. Hale understands those who live in the sway of nature's moods far off the main roads, and she commends them to us in luminous prose backlit by her own hard-earned experience. 

Because I sleep out in cow camp several nights out of the year and because my office is a full hour from the post office, thank you for understanding that your shipment may be briefly delayed.