In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

"This book is a collection of essays from people who have strong Kansas roots. Some are lifelong residents of Kansas, including one whose ancestors homesteaded south of Salina in 1868. He is the fifth generation of his family to farm this land, 154 years later. Other essays are from people who grew up in Kansas, moved away, and came back."--from introduction.

"A dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on writing, drinking, dating, and more, Kim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as "Charles Bukowski in a sundress." ("Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?" she muses.) Now, in this utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle...