Coyotes Along Stony Creek

California always had a love-hate relationship with newcomers. Coyotes Along Stony Creek assembles two noirish tales about this contradictory and often cruel alter ego of the Golden State.

In The Gift, World War II is on everyone's mind when Eduard Lubeck is befriended by a young Indian boy in the rugged foothills of Northern California.

A 1950s peach orchard near the Sacramento River shows Fred Morgan's true calling in Fred Morgan and the Last Man.