Schoolland: A Novel

Schoolland is Max Martinez's novel depicting the daily life of a Mexican-American family in rural Texas during the year of a great drought in the 1950s. Struggles with nature and society form the backdrop for the eternal tale of a child coming of age as his grandfather is waning.

"The novel is richer than the age-old tale of a child coming of age as his grandfather dies . . . the heart of this novel beats in the relationships between the members of the family, and the members of the community,…