Following a two-year prison stint, charming and wily Walker returns to his family's New Mexico ranch, where his pious older sister Lee Ann is busy caring for their mother, raising two sons, and grappling with unethical workplace demands. Walker's illegal activities quickly incite chaos in the town and Lee Ann's marriage, leading to drastic transformations of beliefs, identities, and relationships.
"Magennis brings a kind of poetic excitement to the landscape from the very first page--she has a talent for crisp dialogue, tight narrative and vivid characterization."
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
"Something of a southwestern gothic, drawing inspiration from the spare depictions of the West in the novels of Annie Proulx and its familial drama from the likes of Faulkner, O'Connor, and their ilk--[Alibi Creek] excels in its open-eyed portrayals of a land largely left untamed."
