As Brownlee unleashes the rural gods of air, earth, fire, and water, he reminds us that "joy has a sadness in it we are able to claim if we hear its music." I can't stop listening.

-Dorianne Laux, Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems

Brownlee’s Llano is a place where redemption is always on the menu—where the local Dairy Queen hands out free Blizzards to the deserving and the undeserving alike without charging for them.

-Joseph Millar, author of Shine