The Knapsack Road: Seven Stories of Reconstruction Texas

THE KNAPSACK ROAD is a collection of seven interlocking short stories set in the limestone and cedar country of central Texas during and immediately after the Civil War. The stories share characters, locations, and a single road, building a composite portrait of a specific American moment: the season when the old order had ended and no one yet knew what would replace it.

The collection opens with Jacob Turner's return to his Hill Country farm after four years in the Confederate Army, a retur...