Lawhoma Hills: A Year Behind the Pink Door - Paperback

by Ellis McHale (Author)

Lawhoma Hills A Year Behind the Pink Door is a Southern literary novel set in a fictional Oklahoma valley where land, memory, and community hold fast against change.

Behind a pink door, Yaya keeps a journal. She writes what the soil remembers and what it demands in return. When a Tulsa developer sets its sights on 163 acres along Blue Creek Lake, the town faces a decision that will mark every family in it.

Around her, a year unfolds. Children move through dance recitals, school days, races, and the quiet risks that shape them, their lives set inside the larger struggle over land and belonging. Neighbors gather at Running Waters Café. Old histories rise. Loyalties strain. Parents and grandparents step forward, each with something to lose.

As seasons turn and the ground itself feels uncertain, Lawhoma Hills answers in the only ways it knows how, porch lamps lit, tables filled, voices held steady against what comes for the land beneath them.

Told through a grandmother's journal and the lives unfolding around her, this is a multigenerational story of inheritance, community, and the cost of keeping a place.