Eighteen-year-old Tex is a laid back, part-time troublemaker from a small Oklahoma town. His connection to animals, and his frequent use of animal-themed metaphors to describe other characters, reveals his temperament: he is empathetic, if not always intuitive, and he finds simple happiness in the joys of nature. The city, on the other hand, confounds him, and it is where he finds trouble. Tex’s voice and his vocabulary are simple and straightforward, and his point of view is often the same.