Grind

Convicts round up wild mustangs, a schizophrenic homeless man wins the jackpot and disappears, a truck driver with a child''s mind spends his last hours in the embrace of a prostitute''s photos—disparate and vivid, Mark Maynard''s characters intersect in the new wild west of Reno, Nevada.

“Throughout the volume’s eight tenuously linked tales, lives and fortune are lost, and the city of Reno emerges...