T.P. Jones · Literary novelist
Stories of Crisis.
Questions of Our Time.
Literary fiction rooted in the desert Southwest, where private lives meet public consequence.
Set in a suburb of Phoenix, the quartet explores social crises and the passage of wealth from one generation to the next.
Across the four novels, faith meets evolution and public ideals meet private necessity, returning again and again to the tension between private and public life.
Wealth & inheritance
Faith & dominance
The challenge of public discourse
Democracy
First in the quartet
Currently availablePrivate Property
Distraught at the death of his wife of nearly 70 years and unhappy with his children, a retired industrialist decides to disinherit his family in favor of his church. But the pastor fears the consequences should the church acquire the entire inheritance and the family be impoverished.
Private Property is the only volume of The Sonoran Quartet currently available.
Place the novel in context...The earlier trilogy
The Loss of Certainty
Based on two years of participant/observer research in Dubuque, Iowa, these three novels explore the critical roles that democracy plays in our evolving nation.
Behind the work
Why have I written these novels?
In critical ways, we humans fail to embrace our reality. The reason I write is to make a small contribution to a more hopeful future.
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