ABOUT
THE BOOK

In a small town among the citrus groves in the Santa Bernita Valley, so the locals claim, nothing ever goes according to plan. “It’s a great place to live, they say, if you like surprises: it’s just like life, only different”. Round Rock traces the emerging destinies of the inhabitants of the small town of Rito as each of them struggles for peace and equilibrium, even happiness and love, against hapless, all-too-human frailty and circumstance. Round Rock derives great power from psychological subtlety, and from affection for and understanding of lives strained or broken. Michelle Huneven was born in California where she makes her living as a freelance writer and restaurant critic.