Heathens

by David Haynes

Fiction. While LaDonna does a stint in the Shakopee Women's Detention Center and creates a line of cosmetics from her cell, Marcus pines away for her while caring for their teenage son and dodging his mother's attempts at finding him another woman.

182 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1996

About the author

David Haynes has been recognized by Granta magazine as one of America's best young novelists. The author of six critically acclaimed novels and five children's books, he is director of creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

The former sixth grade teacher's short stories have been heard on "Selected Shorts" on NPR, and his novels have been recognized by the American Library Association.

--from the author profile at SMU

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