"A riot of a writer." -- Cosmopolitan. "A fearless madcap." -- Los Angeles Times. "Among the best of Texas writers." -- Kirkus. "Sarah Bird can't write a dull page." -- Austin American Statesman.

"Sonja Getz would always be out of place in a town like Dorfburg, Texas -- the spot where her mother, minuscule Tinka Getz, washed ashore and shortly afterwards gave birth.... Big-boned, book-addicted Sonja ... was left to grow up in utter solitude, comforting herself with fantasies of her absent father, whom she assumed from a publicity photo found in her mother's dresser to be a Navajo trick roper, stoically referring to herself as a woman of color, and operating a faltering pest-control business. When Tinka remarries and kicks 29-year-old Sonja out, the dour young woman marches off to the local rod

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