RaveThe Washington Post\"There is a sleeping giant in Texas, and Wright captures the frustration and the hope that reverberate across the state each time it stirs ... The essays in God Save Texas, written with Wright’s trademark wit and wry humor, celebrate what makes Texas unique and wonderful: free-flowing rivers, the canyons of Big Bend National Park, Lubbock musicians. At the same time, Wright doesn’t shy away from the fact that, for many Texans, it is hard to square up the state we grew up in with the intolerance that has defined our national reputation ... For those of us who care about our home state, and those who want to understand it, we are fortunate he stayed.\
