Bøger af Ladette Randolph

The stories collected in This Is Not the Tropics come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality-one half submerged in America's own diehard mythology, the other half searching to escape tradition.

After being cyber-bullied, the founder of a successful social media platform leaves Southern California for Lincoln, Nebraska. With the help of her neighbors and Willa Cather's novels, she finds something she hadn't known she was searching for.

Acts of loyalty and failures, long-suppressed resentments and a tragic secret are brought to light, expressing a larger, complex truth

After her life as she knows it ends in heartbreak, Mary Rasmussen, a strong-willed and independent young ranch woman living in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, suddenly feels that everything she has believed in - God, her instincts, the land itself - has failed her. She abandons her cultural and emotional ties, succumbing to circumstances she thinks she is powerless to control.