Book review: 'Fourth of July Creek' by Smith Henderson

Book review: “Fourth of July Creek” by Smith Henderson Oklahoman Modified: October 10, 2014 at 6:26 pm • “Fourth of July Creek” by Smith Henderson (HarperCollins, 467 pages, in stores) Smith Henderson knows how to write. He won a Pushcart Prize and a PEN Emerging Writers Award a few years ago and was a Phillip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His expertise shows in “Fourth of July Creek.” Pete Snow lives in Tenmile, Mont. It is a remote, impoverished area where the penniless and the working poor remain because they...