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Goodnight Texas

By Cobb, William H.

Publishers Summary:
In this lithely told and atmospheric story, a fishing village on the Gulf Coast losesits bearings as its shrimping industry begins to fail. The town of Goodnight bythe Sea lies on a peninsula between two bays, Red Moon and Humosa, and foryears its people, many of them immigrants drawn to this ragged edge of America,have struggled to get by. When Gabriel Perez, a local shrimper, gets laid off, healso manages to lose his girlfriend, Una Vu, a beautiful Vietnamese-Hispanicwaitress who is unhappy with both the smallness of her life and Gabriel’s pettyanger. Gabriel blames Falk Powell, a teenage co-worker of Una’s, for stealing herheart and begins plotting a revenge that will take an unexpected turn. Gusef,their unlikely Russian entrepreneur employer, takes young Falk under his wing.All the while, an impending hurricane gathers ominously in the Gulf.Goodnight, Texas is a poignant, powerful, comic, surprisingly hopeful storyabout a love affair within the beauty of a decaying bayside village, about wantingwhat you cannot have, and about what happens when a coastal Texas townis swamped by a killer hurricane. Cobb has written a timely vision of resilienceand personal survival amidst the collapse of small town American life.

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ISBN

978-1-93296-126-3

Publisher

Unbridled Books