FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/FAULKNER AWARDMeet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years. But Horace, half-white half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things.
The first Vlautin in four years is set for release just ahead of the film adaptation of IMPAC-shortlisted Vlautin book "Lean On Pete". Explores a mixed-race man's possibly deluded boxing dream, chased at the margins of contemporary America.