Kingdom of the Sun

"The stories in Kingdom of the Sun are set in Deming, a bleak way station between Silver City and Las Cruces through which author James Terry weaves a dense tapestry of class stratification, sexual confusion, and football culture."--Jennifer Levin, Santa Fe New Mexican

"Stark and stunning."
--Pasatiempo

"An impressive literary debut. . . . The author dazzles with his ability to develop flawed, oddball characters, his penchant for weaving in weather and the landscape as supporting characters, and his smart handling of metaphors."
--Albuquerque Journal

"In the tradition of James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, James Terry's Kingdom of the Sun uses the town of Deming, New Mexico, to reveal how human character is shaped by the place in which we are raised. Kingdom of the Sun offers an honest, authentic, and poignantly revealing vision of how we become who we are."
--Steve Heller, author of What We Choose to Remember