Grind - Paperback

by Mark Maynard (Author)

This is prime American fiction--tough, generous, and open-eyed.
--ALYSON HAGY, author of Boleto

Maynard's debut collection bursts with idiosyncratic characters...packs a strong emotional punch.
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Convicts round up wild mustangs, a schizophrenic homeless man wins the jackpot and disappears, a truck driver with a child's mind spends his last hours in the embrace of a prostitute's photos. Disparate and vivid, Mark Maynard's characters intersect in the new wild west of Reno, Nevada.

Author Biography

MARK MAYNARD teaches creative writing and composition at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, where he is the fiction editor for The Meadow. A graduate of the MFA program at Antioch University, his work has appeared in Our Stories, Shelf Life Magazine, and The Duck and Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide.