Connie L Beckett

Atop the Ogallala Connie L Beckett

It's 1984 and immigrants from Mexico and Central America as well as refugees fleeing Vietnam after the end of the conflict have arrived in Kingston, Kansas, to work in the meat packing plant. When a girl is killed outside the community youth center in a shootout between Vietnamese and Latino youths, the town's efforts to unite their changing community threaten to explode.