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James Wade

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in Lufkin, Texas, The United States

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James Wade lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and daughter. He is the author of "Beasts of the Earth," a winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel, "River, Sing Out" and "All Things Left Wild," a winner of the 2021 MPIBA Reading the West Award for Debut Fiction and a recipient of the 2021 Spur Award for Best Historical Novel from the Western Writers of America.

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Awards and Honors:
A winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel (BEASTS OF THE EARTH)
A finalist of The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin 2022 Best Fiction Writer
A winner of the 2021 Reading the West Award for Best Debut Novel (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)
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	All Things Left Wild 3.95 avg rating — 1,281 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Hollow Out the Dark 4.13 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River, Sing Out 3.87 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Narrow the Road 4.43 avg rating — 121 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Revenge isn’t real. You can’t buy coffee with it. It won’t warm your bed at night. And killing only leads to more killing.”
― James Wade, All Things Left Wild

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“In fact, I think it’s usually those who least deserve something, good or bad, that end up finding it on their doorstep.”
― James Wade, Beasts of the Earth

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“The gun was heavy in Randall’s hand, as it should be in any hand, and heavy with the weight of decision and consequence and the destruction to come. It was, he thought, a machine constructed to kill and spill the blood of nations and become a commodity for the powerful, and another tool with which to control the weak and later the same tool that would make the weak believe they have power when in truth they have none. Only a gun, heavy in their hand.”
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