Valentine: A Thriller

I just finished Valentine at about six o'clock this morning. I woke at four, it was calling to me, and I couldn't say no. Elizabeth Wetmore's writing style is as spare and merciless as the West Texas country she describes. There's very little room for error in the desert, especially for women in the 1970s, and her elegiac prose captures the sense of strandedness that each of her female characters endures with a poignant realism that hit this native Texan right in the heart.