Grind
Mark Maynard
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Summary
The Reno region has recently been prominently featured in the national media after several tragic events (the Reno Air Races crash, two late season wildfires that burned scores of houses in the city limits and a mass shooting in a Carson City restaurant). The book focuses on the resilience of the people of Reno in the wake of tragedies both public and private and seeks hope in the face of adversity.Many prominent short story writers and novelists will be asked for blurbs to help generate early buzz through a network of influential literary figures.Grind takes on key contemporary western issues of land use (including ski area development, contentious wild horse gathers, economic hardship, and the dilemma of westerners who want to enjoy and protect the wilderness) in an irreverent, thought-provoking and entertaining way, invoking the ghost of Edward Abbey’s The Monkeywrench Gang as much as the free spirit of John Muir.The fifth in a series of Torrey House Press titles all focused on different aspects of what it means to be living in the modern American west. Each book is wildly unique, yet together they form a chorus of voices that demand to be heard.