Praise for Hard Margins

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“In the West, as in Faulkner’s South, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. Edward J. Delaney’s gripping new novel captures the dashed hopes and stifled ambitions that are too often avoided in telling the story of Manifest Destiny. Hard Margins is an achievement, as starkly beautiful as the landscape it describes.”
—David Wright Faladé, author of The New Internationals and Black Cloud Rising

 

“Taut and atmospheric, Hard Margins is a gripping read about people pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond. It kept me up all night. This fine a novel all too rarely comes along.”
—Steve Yarbrough, author of Stay Gone Days

 

“In this remarkable novel, we have the rare opportunity of reading about the modern-day West as it really is: the discovery of oil on the tribe's land is ‘the complicated windfall of a dying tribe,’ producing a toxic dependency like the per capita checks the agent gives out every month. And yet there is hope . . . even in the agent’s final realization that ‘his fate is now only in seeing this through.’” 
—Sallie Bingham, author of Taken by the Shawnee