The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford: A Novel

From the author of the multi-award-winning, National Book Award–longlisted, “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders) story collection Heads of the Colored People, comes a sly, spry, tall tale of a debut novel about the murder of an infamous moonshiner and the cacophony of true stories a small town can tell about itself.

Rich Milford is dead. At last.

We find ourselves in Oklahoma, just far enough out of Tulsa, just long enough after the Massacre of 1921. For...