Clyde Edgerton

"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of a favorite hymn. It is more enjoyable than a pitcher full of sweet tea and one of Mattie's home-cooked dinners."—The Atlanta Journal & Constitution

She had as much business keeping a stray dog as she had walking across Egypt—which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She's Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded

In the Bales-McCord family there are several old people contemplating their final resting places. Two of them—Glenn and Laura Bales—are in bad shape, and everybody is wondering which one will go first. Join them in Summerlin as they attend to the business of passing on—and passing down. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELECTION.

A New York Times Notable Book: A quirky tale of the Old West from the author of The Bible Salesman, "a master of comic timing" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

"A Hollywood pitchman might call Redeye Eudora Welty meets Mark Twain," says the New York Times Book Review about Clyde Edgerton's "small gem of a novel," a witty adventure set on the nineteenth-century frontier.

"A rollicking tale .