Elizabeth Crook novels include The Night Journal, which received the Spur Award from Western Writers of America, and Monday, Monday, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 and winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.Crook latest novel is The Which Way Tree.
From her March 2018 Q&A with Marisa Charpentier for the Texas Book Festival:
Why did you decide to write this book now?Visit Elizabeth Crook's website.
When my son was fourteen he got lost in the canyons in Bandera County one night, and was finally located by search helicopters after a nine hour hunt, during which a mountain lion was spotted trailing through the canyon into which he had disappered. It was the scariest night of my life and left me obsessed with mountain lions and their attacks on humans. I read everything I could find on the subject. I guess I wrote this story partly because I had run out of real life accounts to...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: Monday, Monday.
The Page 69 Test: The Which Way Tree.
My Book, The Movie: The Which Way Tree.
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