![]() ![]() CAROLYN COOKE, author of Daughters of the Revolution You feel gritty all over-and more alive.” “Mark Maynard’s Reno is so sleazily appealing, so filled with convict cowboys, wild horses, racing pilots, truckers, snow bums, eco-terrorists, tattoo conventions, pawnshops and jackpots that you emerge from reading Grind dazed by this author’s empathy for neglected quarters of humanity. ![]() A debut collection of stories that perfectly captures the seediness, desperation and sense of loss permeating the hot desert world of Reno.” “In Grind, Maynard reveals a world the Nevada tourism board would rather you didn’t see. Maynard’s debut collection bursts with idiosyncratic characters. ![]() "Throughout the volume’s eight tenuously linked tales, lives and fortune are lost, and the city of Reno emerges as a locus of shattered souls. ![]()
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