Cowboys and East Indians Stories Shannon Messenger mage and outsider have a

mage and outsider have a fractious relationship

a character who fancies himself a Don Juan is swept up in the commotion of an American film crew shooting a movie in his tiny town

our inner critic sinks us entirely: I'm going to fail

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut

and make real friends

Cowboys and East Indians Stories Shannon Messenger mage and outsider have aBy: Nina McConigley Published by Random House, 2026 01 20 <b>WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD AND THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Maile Meloy, a collection of stories about Indian immigrants in the rural American West full of such grace and understated power that you know you are in the presence of an incredible new voice in fiction (Kevin Wilson).< b><br><br><i>We were the wrong kind of Indians living in Wyoming. There