Praise for The Outskirts of Redemption

“A powerful exploration of the culture and ramifications behind suicide and the meaning of family, friendship and redemption.”

- Brandi Ortiz, award-winning writer

“Richly layered with emotional complexity, The Outskirts of Redemption holds the reader spellbound with the suspense of secrecy and the conflict it engenders in an adolescent, as well as his family, on his long journey to adulthood and moral evolution. Clayton Trier has given us a deeply transformative story, significant and timely, with surprising turns all the way to the last page.”

- Gail D. Storey, author of The Lord's Motel, God's Country Club, and I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

“A bittersweet tale of innocence lost in a southeast Texas town by a young man with a terrible secret, recalling how he had to navigate among his parents, his teachers, a toxic racist environment, and his own conscience in coming to grips with the suicide of his best friend.”

– Patricia Hunt Holmes, author of Searching For Pilar and Crude Ambition

“A story that touches us profoundly, driven by a tragedy that need not have happened, and the effects of which changes lives forever.”

- Molly & Gary Whitney, authors of Thistle Downe