Overview

Lawhoma Hills A Year Behind the Pink Door is a Southern literary novel set in a fictional Oklahoma valley where land, memory, and community hold fast against change. Behind a pink door, Yaya keeps a journal. She writes what the soil remembers and what it demands in return. When a Tulsa developer sets its sights on 163 acres along Blue Creek Lake, the town faces a decision that will mark every family in it. Around her, a year unfolds. Children move through dance recitals, school days, races, and the quiet risks that shape them, their lives set inside the larger struggle over land and belonging. Neighbors gather at Running Waters Café. Old histories rise. Loyalties strain. Parents and grandparents step forward, each with something to lose. As seasons turn and the ground itself feels uncertain, Lawhoma Hills answers in the only ways it knows how, porch lamps lit, tables filled, voices held steady against what comes for the land beneath them. Told through a grandmother's journal and the lives unfolding around her, this is a multigenerational story of inheritance, community, and the cost of keeping a place.

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""This is a debut novel that feels warm and cozy while holding space for grief and laughter. The added playlist makes it magical to listen along with the narrator's thoughts. Vivid, immersive, and uplifting."" - Advance Reader Copy Review ""The writing is detailed, puts the reader right in the town and the anthropomorphic neighbors are loved as naturally as the human ones. A wonderful debut."" - Advance Reader Copy Review

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Ellis McHale writes Southern literary novels set in Lawhoma Hills, a fictional woodland town in Oklahoma where anthropomorphic animal families live full human lives shaped by land, memory, and community. Her stories move through drought and harvest, grief and laughter, and the quiet work of tending what has been entrusted to us.An Oklahoma native, Ellis is a mother and grandmother who finds her rhythm in the garden, on a back porch at dusk, or with twin grandsons tugging at the curtains. She writes with dirt under her nails in a house filled with music and dogs underfoot.She cares deeply about her home state, about partnership with the natural world rather than conquest of it, and about preserving the small ordinary moments that become memory. When she is not writing, she is sketching, planting something new, or claiming a Sunday nap without apology.Ellis McHale is the author of the Lawhoma Hills series and founder of Pink Door Publishing.

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