The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas, by Joyce Gibson Roach
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They came and scattered themselves about the plains and prairies of West Texas like seeds thrown into the constant winds. In clusters or in singles they dug in. Depending on rainfall, they flourished or failed. Maybe the journeyers arrived in the springtime of a good year and saw the beauty of the place, expecting it to last. Maybe it did last for a season or so before a bad dry spell set in. Maybe it was several years before a real drought appeared, which they foolishly thought would pass. Regardless, there were soon small pockets of people becoming inseparable from the land. Some were made sad, mean, cantankerous, negative; some quiet, kind, patient; but all shared stubbornness, informed by the very land itself. In these eight stories that share the same setting across time, Joyce Gibson Roach writes of the place that sparked her treasured West Texas sensibility. Her fictive Horned Toad calls to stand and speak itself into existence--to live again in words. The characters are all familiar West Texas-types speaking in the tongues of dry places. All reflect their moments in time, proving that human nature does not change in this land of rain shadow.
The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas, by Joyce Gibson Roach - Brand: Roach, Joyce Gibson
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .80" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 136 pages
The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas, by Joyce Gibson Roach Review Joyce Gibson Roach is a legend. She has truly outdone herself with her new collection of stories about the place that made her who she is. It’s an honor to know her and to know this book.--Sarah Bird, author of Above the East China Sea With these eight gems of short fiction, Joyce Gibson Roach captures the culture of West Texas with precision and authenticity. Roach’s characters speak the language of the folk and carry the values of small-town Texas. The gallery of characters, from high-toned women to cowboy ranch hands, along with young narrators with hidden dreams and complicated questions, provide a chronicle of West Texas that has both local color and universal application. This book is destined to be a classic of Texas literature.--Phyllis Bridges, Cornaro Professor English, Texas Woman’s University I know the exceptional talent of this award-winning author and have read most of her stories as well as most all of her writings in other genres. This new collection contains an unpublished story—“Crucero”—which I believe is one of the best she has ever written. It is a gem.--Bob J. Frye, emeritus professor of English, Texas Christian University
About the Author Joyce Gibson Roach is a retired Texas Christian University adjunct English professor, author of non-fiction books, short fiction, and juvenile fiction, a folklorist, grassroots historian, rancher, and naturalist. Her writing has won three Spur Awards and the Carr P. Collins Prize. She is an active member of many organizations, including the Texas State Historical Association, the Texas Folklore Society, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the West Texas Historical Association.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Roach’s stories are about the dynamics of small Texas towns By Texasbooklover Fiction/TexasRoach, Joyce GibsonThe Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas978-0-89672-926-1, Texas Tech University Press, paperback, 136 pages, $24.95June 15, 2015The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas is a collection of eight short stories by Joyce Gibson Roach, she of the impeccable c.v.: author, rancher, Fellow of Texas State Historical Association and Texas Folklore Society, member of Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas, past president of Horned Lizard Conservation Society, Honoree in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and founder of the Center for Western Cross Timbers Studies.The stories in Rain Shadow are linked by place, each set in the tiny, fictional town of Horned Toad. As these pieces reflect on the importance of the land, the characters and time periods change but the land abides. Roach quotes Tom Lea in her introduction: “Its richness is space, wide and deep and infinitely colored, visible to the jagged mountain rim of the world – huge and challenging space, to evoke huge and challenging freedom.” Roach and Lea are writing of West Texas, my home.Roach’s colloquial style had me laughing aloud at the candidate for sheriff in “In Broad Daylight” whose platform is elimination of free bosoms: “A Bra on Every Woman. Let’s keep our women Decent and Strapped Down!” Roach is at her Mark Twain best when poking fun at religious pieties and denominational hierarchies. “Just as I Am” reveals summer revival season as told by a fourteen-year-old girl. “Mid-July to August was the season to gather lukewarm Christians, Backsliders, and New Material into the fold.” Sister Elizabeth has the kids play “Find the Scripture.” “Who can tell us about Bible sports?” One kid jumped up. He was ready with Genesis 26:8, “Isaac was sporting with Rebecca his wife.” “Animals,” [Sister Elizabeth] said, her voice rising. Someone quoted her a line about oxen and a***s. “Women,” she shrieked. Bubba Ray Thompson replied with a plum about whores, and Sister Elizabeth hit the door…This story turns serious when the young narrator learns a lesson about the limits of Christian charity.In “Crucero” Roach brings out the imagery.“[W]hen the blue-black one and Señora Sanchez would stand in the yard by the windmill and pour buckets of water on each other to wash their hair…how they would sit on the back steps of the casa grande and comb the tangles from their own jet black hair…how the sun would shine on the women and how beautiful they were with their hair unbound and loose and wet, the drops of water like jewels and rainbows in their hair…children would wait until the next time when the words would summon them again — “The women are watering their hair!”Roach’s stories are about the dynamics of small towns in Texas. There’s the Christian sanctimony, the “isms” of class, sex, and race, and boastful ignorance of the larger world. There’s also discreet charity, the anchor of shared history, the comforts of the familiar, and united fronts. “Too simply put, it is hardly surprising that a place as marked by harshly aberrant weather as mine reveals itself in other human extremes as well: hard-nosed religion, peculiar politics, curious customs.”And everybody said, “Amen.”Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Bob War By Story Circle Book Reviews West Texas is big; West Texas is huge. Lots of land, lots of wind, lots of sky, and not very many people. Joyce Gibson Roach's stories tell of this country which she describes as land that "stretches between and beyond the Brazos and the Rio Grande, from the Panhandle through the Big Bend, from the Red River to the Gulf of Mexico." The stories draw us into this land and those lonely ones who inhabit it across the twentieth century.I'm a second-generation West Texan, I lived through some these years and spent happy hours under the windmill of one grandmother or on the city porch swing of the other, listening to their Texas-rich voices tell tales of the earlier times. The folks in and around Roach's fictional Horn Toad sound like my grandmothers and many of the stories echo the stories they told.The earliest story takes place in 1902, when the range is alive with arguments as barbed wire ("bob war") divides land and friendships. We gallop through the century, from small town church squabbles right into women's lib and going braless (the candidate for sheriff is agin it!) and take a look at Saddam Hussein and how our guys would "give it to him good." The Land of the Rain Shadow gives us a fine look at Texas and at life.These stories haven't floated right out of the wild, blue west Texas sky. Roach postscripts each tale with a note on how the story relates, sometimes closely, sometimes less so, to actual events in history thus making them even more real, more in their own moment. This adds to the pleasure for the casual reader, but for a true student of history is an outstanding addition.by Trilla Pandofor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women
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