Loyal Ledford of Huntington, West Virginia, is the unassuming central figure of THE MARROWBONE MARBLE COMPANY, the lyrical second novel from Texas State grad GLENN TAYLOR, whose debut, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Ledford’s world is shaped by three pivotal events: He is orphaned in 1935, when his drunken father crashes the family’s Model A pickup; he kills a man in cold blood during World War II; and he quits his job at the Mann Glass Company in protest against its racist policies. Ledford becomes a devoted family man and pacifist, but we’re still caught off guard when, in the midst of a deeply segregated South, he builds a toy-marble factory and an adjoining…The post The Marrowbone Marble Company appeared first on Texas Monthly.