Killing Daddy: A Caprock Story by Sandra Gail Teichmann Killing Daddy: A Caprock Story, an experimental novel set in the Texas Panhandle, explores the layers of sediment surrounding the death of Cleveland Rafferty. Where the Texas High Plains meets the Caprocks, eons of time extend before and behind the family. Rivers run full and then dry, rocks form and disintegrate, truths come and go, and the facts-dissolved, blown, twisted, turned, buried, and compressed--are uncovered to be known and again unknown. About the author: Other books by Sandra Gail Teichmann are Slow Mud and Woman of the Plains. She has an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. She is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at West Texas A&M University. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9718361-0-8 Fiction / $17.95

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"Sandra Gail Teichmann’s KILLING DADDY is a lyrical “whydunnit,” the aching record of an underloved brood whose familial ties appear to have eroded like the Caprock escarpment nearby. The novel’s characters are at once recognizable, not because they are the familiar stuff of fiction but because they are genuine stuff of life. Teichmann has an ear for dialogue, an eye for the truth, and the heart to tell it all-all the tender and private moments that underscore the essential humanity of all families."
-Jerry Bradley, author of Simple Versions of Disaster

"Forget the cliches and platitudes about Texas, West Texas and the Southwest, cowboys, horses and cows. KILLING DADDY covers the Texas panhandle and the Southern Plains from bed rock to caprock with chiseled prose, clearly defined characters and crisp description. Drought, flood, black blizzard and white sun are all here along with a family that most will consider their own and a story they will think is their memory. Yet, there’s nothing simple about these people or their story that is wonderfully nuanced and limned."
-Robert Flynn, author of Tie-Fast Country and Living with the Hyenas

"KILLING DADDY turns the world of West Texas on its head. Teichmann’s brilliant experimental novel explores the Caprock country with new eyes and ears and senses. We see the old world of the West in bursts and flashes, in bits and pieces, and in simple stories. All these forms are mixed in a way to make new what we have always seen with the old eyes of the western."
-James Ward Lee, author of Texas My Texas