The Horse on the Sidewalk

<p><em>The best kind of coming-of-age tale one full of peril and heroism and young love.... A flawless snapshot of a time and a place worth remembering.</em><strong> -Steve Brewer author of <em>Trouble Town</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Finalist for the New Mexico Book Award</strong></p><p></p><p>Gil Wheeler has one thing on his mind: making enough money to land his own motorcycle. Maybe even a girlfriend. Between selling papers and hawking rings he dreams of adventure and exploration beyond the expanding edge of post-war Albuquerque. Together Gil and his friends navigate their just-built junior high and the desert landscape beyond their neighborhood - a new suburb that much like their young lives is brimming with both fresh possibility and the promise that not all dreams will come true.</p><p></p><p>These interconnected short stories <strong>delight the reader with their minimalist precision their eccentric humor and the off-the-wall details of their no-bull realism</strong> (V. B. Price) and <strong>capture boom-town Albuquerque in its first explosion</strong> (Enrique Lamadrid).</p>