James Jennings’s Blue Wild Indigo is steeped in the tradition of Southern and Southwestern writers like Larry McMurtry and Harper Lee. From the first page, Jennings whisks us away to a time, 1954, and a place, Oklahoma, that now only exists in the imagination of such talented writers… Jennings, a master of creating complicated characters and lush description makes his characters… familiar to us, not because we’ve seen them before, but because they are so skillfully rendered.