Nearly Nowhere

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With her teen daughter Ruby, Kate Ryan moves to the secluded village of Zamora to have a quiet life alongside her poor neighbours, the Spanish farmers of northern New Mexico. However, when Kate invites the wrong drifter home, the delicate peace of her domain shatters. Troy is the bad smell that refuses to go away. Kate bribes him into leaving with a few hundred dollars and a ride to Santa Fe. In town, Troy hustles his way into another woman's life and returns to Zamora to prove he's not the man Kate thinks he is. He's much worse.

Reviews

"You should be reading Summer Brenner."
--More Intelligent Life, The Economist

"With her beautifully wrought sentences and dialogue that bring characters alive, Summer Brenner weaves a gripping and dark tale of mysterious crime based in spiritually and naturally rich northern New Mexico and beyond."
--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, historian and writer, author of Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico

"Summer Brenner's Nearly Nowhere has the breathless momentum of the white-water river her characters must navigate en route from a isolated village in New Mexico to a neo-Nazi camp in Idaho. A flawed but loving single mother, a troubled teen girl, a good doctor with a secret, a murderous sociopath--this short novel packs enough into its pages to fight well above its weight class."
--Michael Harris, author of The Chieu Hoi Saloon

"To the party, Summer Brenner brings a poet's ear, a woman's awareness, and a soulful intent, and her attention has enriched every manner of literary endeavor graced by it."
--Jim Nisbet, author of A Moment of Doubt and Snitch World

"It's because the characters are so richly drawn, the writing so elegant, the rural Western landscape so exquisitely described, that you don't realize at first what Brenner has done to you; how she's loaded up the dory, strapped you in, and loosed you down this terrifying river. And, then, of course, it's too late. Nearly Nowhere is a beautiful and chilling novel."
--Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike

Author Bio

Summer Brenner is the author of I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex; Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco; and My Life in Clothes. She lives in Berkeley, California.