Love and Country: A Novel

Moving to a small ranching town in Idaho with his mother, Lenna, fourteen-year-old Kenny Swanson dreams of joining the rodeo, finds first love with a girl who yearns to escape her life, meets a charismatic rodeo star who becomes his hero, confronts death on a hunting trip, and learns the meaning of forgiveness, in an evocative debut novel of growing up. 20,000 first printing.