Rilla Askew Books
Kind of kin
By Rilla Askew
Complications arise throughout his family when churchgoing and respected community member Robert John Brown's caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers.
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By Rilla Askew
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDAn epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalryFayette is an enterprising sch...
Read MoreThe mercy seat
By Rilla Askew
In deep winter, early February 1887, two brothers, John and Lafayette Lodi, flee Kentucky in the middle of the night, heading west toward Indian Territory. The men carry their families with them in...
Read MoreFire in Beulah
By Rilla Askew
"At the center of this work is the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and her enigmatic black maid, Graceful. Both are caught in the relentless cur...
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